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Notes from the Valley of Slaughter
A Memoir from the Ghetto of Šiauliai, LithuaniaStudies in Antisemitism
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34,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 07.03.2023 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780253065605 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 320 |
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<p><i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter </i>is an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944). A physician, scholar, and community leader, Pick was a keen observer of the hardships of ghetto life, and his journal represents a detailed account of the tragic events he witnessed as well as a sensitive, almost poetic personal testament.</p>
<p>Pick's journal covers the tumultuous late 1930s, the 1940–41 Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and the catastrophic German invasion and occupation, during which more than 90 percent of Lithuania's Jews were murdered. Pick was among a handful of Šiauliai Jewish physicians spared execution and allowed to work for the occupiers. Although Pick succumbed to illness in spring 1944, shortly before the ghetto was liquidated, his son Tedik buried the manuscript before fleeing the ghetto, retrieved it after liberation, and carried it with him to Israel.</p>
<p><i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> is<i> </i>one of only a handful of diaries to survive the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Translated for the first time into English and extensively annotated, it conveys Pick's voice to a wider international audience for the first time.</p>
<p>Pick's journal covers the tumultuous late 1930s, the 1940–41 Soviet occupation of Lithuania, and the catastrophic German invasion and occupation, during which more than 90 percent of Lithuania's Jews were murdered. Pick was among a handful of Šiauliai Jewish physicians spared execution and allowed to work for the occupiers. Although Pick succumbed to illness in spring 1944, shortly before the ghetto was liquidated, his son Tedik buried the manuscript before fleeing the ghetto, retrieved it after liberation, and carried it with him to Israel.</p>
<p><i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> is<i> </i>one of only a handful of diaries to survive the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Translated for the first time into English and extensively annotated, it conveys Pick's voice to a wider international audience for the first time.</p>
<p>Acknowledgments<br>Retrieving a Voice from the Ghetto<br>Notes on the Text<br><b>Part A<br></b>1. Before the Bolsheviks' Arrival (A Preface)<br>2. The Blosheviks in Lithuania<br>3. My Son's Admission to the Lithuanian University<br>4. On the Eve of War<br>5. The Start of the War<br>6. The Germans Enter Šiauliai<br><b>Part B<br></b>7. Afflictions<br>8. The Edicts<br><b>Part C<br></b>9. The Rules of the Ghetto<br><b>Part D<br></b>10. From My Diary<br>Notes<br>References<br>Index</p>
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<p>Aharon Pick was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania, in 1872. After graduating from the Sorbonne, he practiced medicine in Šiauliai, Lithuania. In 1941, along with his wife, Dvorah Tatz Pick, he was forced into the Šiauliai ghetto, where he worked in the ghetto hospital. He died of illness in June 1944.</p>
<p>Gabriel Laufer, the son of two Holocaust survivors, was born in Budapest, grew up in Israel and currently lives in Charlottesville, VA. He earned a PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and served as a professor at the Technion in Israel and at the University of Virginia until his retirement. He is the author of <i>A Survivor's Duty</i> which describes the survival of the author's father in the Holocaust and his own participation in Israeli wars.</p>
<p>Born in 1950 and raised near New York City, Andrew Cassel spent 35 years writing and editing for US newspapers, covering business, politics, and culture. A graduate of Dartmouth College, in retirement he earned a master of liberal arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania, also studying Yiddish in the US and Europe. He has translated a range of historical and biographical essays while curating a website devoted to Jewish history in Lithuania and elsewhere.</p>
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<p>Aharon Pick was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania, in 1872. After graduating from the Sorbonne, he practiced medicine in Šiauliai, Lithuania. In 1941, along with his wife, Dvorah Tatz Pick, he was forced into the Šiauliai ghetto, where he worked in the ghetto hospital. He died of illness in June 1944.</p>
<p>Gabriel Laufer, the son of two Holocaust survivors, was born in Budapest, grew up in Israel and currently lives in Charlottesville, VA. He earned a PhD in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and served as a professor at the Technion in Israel and at the University of Virginia until his retirement. He is the author of <i>A Survivor's Duty</i> which describes the survival of the author's father in the Holocaust and his own participation in Israeli wars.</p>
<p>Born in 1950 and raised near New York City, Andrew Cassel spent 35 years writing and editing for US newspapers, covering business, politics, and culture. A graduate of Dartmouth College, in retirement he earned a master of liberal arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania, also studying Yiddish in the US and Europe. He has translated a range of historical and biographical essays while curating a website devoted to Jewish history in Lithuania and elsewhere.</p>
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<p>Listen to Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel talking about <i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> on the <a href="https://wina.com/podcasts/a-graceful-life-april-1-2023-gabriel-laufer-and-andrew-cassel/" target="_blank">A Graceful Life Podcast</a></p>
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<p>Watch Gabriel Laufer talking about <i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> on the <a href="https://www.nbc29.com/2023/06/26/former-uva-professor-helping-holocaust-museum/" target="_blank"> local news</a>.</p>
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<p>Listen to Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel talking about <i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> with the Sons and Daughters of Holocaust Survivors in Philadelphia on <a href="hhttps://youtu.be/yUz4LSj6Nsw" target="_blank">youtube</a>.</p>
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<p>Listen to Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel talking about <i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> on the <a href="https://wina.com/podcasts/a-graceful-life-april-1-2023-gabriel-laufer-and-andrew-cassel/" target="_blank">A Graceful Life Podcast</a></p>
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<p>Watch Gabriel Laufer talking about <i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> on the <a href="https://www.nbc29.com/2023/06/26/former-uva-professor-helping-holocaust-museum/" target="_blank"> local news</a>.</p>
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<p>Listen to Gabriel Laufer and Andrew Cassel talking about <i>Notes from the Valley of Slaughter</i> with the Sons and Daughters of Holocaust Survivors in Philadelphia on <a href="hhttps://youtu.be/yUz4LSj6Nsw" target="_blank">youtube</a>.</p>
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<p>In this important account — part memoir, part diary — of Jewish life under Bolshevik and then Nazi occupation in Siauliai, Lithuania, the English-language reader gains access for the first time to the observations and reflections of Aharon Pick, a medical doctor active in Jewish communal affairs and politics. Pick wrote with a journalist's flair for an important story and a humanist's care for the individual. His searing record offers scholars fresh insights into Jews' experience of the Holocaust in Lithuania and will be suitable for classroom use as well.</p>
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