A Vilna Girl in Nazi Claws: (Yiddish/Hebrew Bi-Lingual Edition)
by Sima Skurkowitz
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Bilingual Edition: basically equally divided into Yiddish & Hebrew sections with 11 photographs.
Transcribed Yiddish title: "A Vilner Maidel In Nazishe Negel".
Transcribed Hebrew title: "Na'ara M'Vilna B'Miltaot HaNatzim".
The memoirs of Holocaust survivor Sima Skurkowitz, originally from Vilna (now the capital of LIthuania but part of Poland during the two world wars) of her childhood, life in the Vilna Ghetto, then to multiple Estonian concentration camps (Vaivara, Vivikona, Narva, Kiviliah, Azari, Goldpiltz), then to Shtuthof concentration camp, then as a slave laborer in Oxentzal near Hamburg, Germany, then to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated. She also describes life after the liberation & emigration to Israel.
Her husband's experiences in the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army are also noted. In addition, she writes about British Chaplain Leslie Hardman who helped the Bergen-Belsen inmates upon liberation and about her friend, Lazar Ran.
Transcribed Yiddish title: "A Vilner Maidel In Nazishe Negel".
Transcribed Hebrew title: "Na'ara M'Vilna B'Miltaot HaNatzim".
The memoirs of Holocaust survivor Sima Skurkowitz, originally from Vilna (now the capital of LIthuania but part of Poland during the two world wars) of her childhood, life in the Vilna Ghetto, then to multiple Estonian concentration camps (Vaivara, Vivikona, Narva, Kiviliah, Azari, Goldpiltz), then to Shtuthof concentration camp, then as a slave laborer in Oxentzal near Hamburg, Germany, then to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated. She also describes life after the liberation & emigration to Israel.
Her husband's experiences in the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army are also noted. In addition, she writes about British Chaplain Leslie Hardman who helped the Bergen-Belsen inmates upon liberation and about her friend, Lazar Ran.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1044
- Title
- A Vilna Girl in Nazi Claws
- Author
- Sima Skurkowitz
- Format/Binding
- Intact binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Self-Published
- Place of Publication
- Israel
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 222
- Weight
- 0.75 lbs
- Keywords
- Holocaust; Holocaust memoirs; Vilna Ghetto; concentration camps; Estonian concentration camps; Shtuthof; Bergen-Belsen; Lazar Ran; Leslie Hardman
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