Table of Contents

Preface: A Double Mourning 1. Introduction: Towards a Multidimensional Approach 2. Vilna: Jerusalem of the North 3. My Journey Begins in Ponar 4. Chasia Spanerflig: An Eternal Tear 5. Fania Brantsovsky: A Gold Compact and a Violet Brooch 6. Berl Glazer: A Yarmulke, a Medal and a Rusty Key 7. Rachel Kostanian: An Orphanage, a Library and a Museum 8. Dora Pilianskiene: A Paintbox and Paintings 9. Josef Levinson: Two Books, Handwritten Notes and a Pen 10. Living with The Past Bibliography Index

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Memories, biographical objects and the special places of Holocaust survivors are examined as the Lithuanian Jewish experience during and after persecution is explored.

About the Author

Shivaun Woolfson has a PhD from the University of Sussex, UK.

Reviews

[A] remarkable and moving study in the recovery of an endangered past ... This wonderful book has recovered an important strand of Holocaust history for students, scholars and general readers alike.
*Journal of European Studies*

A book which … deserves a good readership; and this is because of its raw material … [It] sticks in the mind by virtue of the strength and value of its primary material.
*The Slavonic and East European Review*

This is an important study of the difficulties Lithuania faces in coming to terms with the legacy of the Soviet and Nazi occupations and how these are being dealt with.
*Social History*

Woolfson’s thought-provoking study makes a valuable contribution to the history of Lithuanian Jewry.
*Journal of Modern Jewish Studies*