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The shadow of death, the Holocaust in Lithuania, Harry Gordon

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The shadow of death

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Harry Gordon

the Holocaust in Lithuania

Memoirs relating the author's experiences in the Kovno ghetto and in Auschwitz and Dachau (where he was liberated). He emigrated to the U.S. in 1949., (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)

Foreword / by Theodore S. Hamerow -- Before the war -- The Russian invasion -- The war begins -- The purge of Slobodka -- Moving to the ghetto -- In the ghetto -- The collection of valuables -- The first practice massacre -- The airfield work brigade -- The liquidation of the little ghetto -- Life in the big ghetto -- The big liquidation -- The workshops and the small brigades -- The Jewish police -- New life and new work -- Koshedar -- Back in the ghetto -- A new work brigade -- Red plantation -- The Obersturmbannführer -- The liquidation of the helpless -- The partisans in the woods -- Kazlu Ruda and escape -- Deportation to the concentration camps -- Auschwitz -- Dachau, camp number one -- The sick camp -- Liberation -- In the hospital -- The DP camp -- The voyage to the United States -- The new life -- Maps -- Lithuania -- Kovno City center -- Kovno and its suburbs -- The Kovno Ghetto