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Abraham Sutzkever in Tablet · 18 Apr 2023

This text discusses the hideouts known as "malines" that were created in the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust.

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The Holocaust robbed them of their stories; this artist is bringing them back to life

Forward · 23 Dec 2021

Ken Krimstein's latest graphic nonfiction book, "When I Grow Up, the Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers," revives the untold stories of six Jewish teens from Yiddishuania (now Poland/Lithuania) whose writings were nearly lost during World War II.

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Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto

Abraham Sutzkever in Jewish Review of Books · 9 Sep 2021

This article discusses the cultural life in the Vilna Ghetto during the German occupation from 1941 to 1943.

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Yiddish Heroism, Hebrew Tears

Dara Horn in Jewish Review of Books · 20 Dec 2018

"Black Honey, The Life and Poetry of Avraham Sutzkever" is a documentary highlighting the story of Avraham Sutzkever, a prominent Yiddish poet who survived the Holocaust and continued to create powerful work afterward.

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A Book and a Sword in the Vilna Ghetto

Cecile E. Kuznitz in Jewish Review of Books · 16 Jun 2018

During the Holocaust in the Vilna Ghetto, Jewish inmates faced intense scrutiny at the ghetto gate, with some risking their lives to smuggle various contraband, including rare rabbinic books, to save the Jewish cultural legacy from Nazi looting.