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Yitskhok Rudashevski

Yitzkhok Rudashevski, his grandmother and cousins

Yitskhok Rudashevski (10 December 1927, Vilnius – 1 October 1943) was a young Jewish teenager who lived in the Vilna Ghetto, Lithuania. He wrote a diary from June 1941 to April 1943 which detailed his life and struggles living in the ghetto. He was shot to death in the Ponary massacre during the liquidation of September–October 1943.[1] His diary was discovered by his cousin Sorah/Sarah née Voloshina Kliwiec/Klivetz/Klibatz, Hebrew: קליבץ), in 1944. She escaped the ghetto, fought with the Jewish partisans, and when Vilnius was liberated, she returned to the hideout.[2][3]

Pages from the diary

Fragments of the diary were published in original Yiddish in 1953 in Di goldene keyt magazine. Abraham Yavin [he] translated it into Hebrew in 1968.[4] An English translation, The Diary of the Vilna Ghetto (from Yiddish original and Hebrew publication) by Percy Matenko was published in 1973 by Ghetto Fighters' House, Israel.[5][6] In 1973 a Hebrew translation of the diary was published by the Ghetto Fighters' House. The original diary is held in the archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York.[7] In 2018 it was published in Yiddish and Lithuanian.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Zapruder, Alexandra (2004). Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust. Yale University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-300-10307-6.
  2. ^ Sara Voloshin-Klibatz
  3. ^ שרה קליבץ, Yad Vashem
  4. ^ David Patterson, THE DIARY OF THE VILNA GHETTO: JUNE 1941-April 1943 (Yomano shel na'ar mi-Vilnah: Yuni 1941-April 1943)
  5. ^ The diary of the Vilna ghetto, June 1941-April 1943 / Yitskhok Rudashevski.
  6. ^ Shifra Sznol, In: Josephus in Modern Jewish Culture, p. 333
  7. ^ Shilo, Bilhah. "The Diary of Yitzchak Rudashevski". Yad Vashem. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  8. ^ Icchoko Rudaševskio „Vilniaus geto dienoraščio“ pristatymas Vilniaus knygų mugėje

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