- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Childhood and Youth (1918–1941)
- One Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna
- Two In Independent Lithuania
- Three Under Soviet Rule
- Part Two Holocaust and War (1941–1944)
- Four Hiding in a Monastery
- Five The Manifesto of January 1, 1942
- Six The Establishment and Training of the Underground
- Seven The Wittenberg Affair
- Eight The Last Days of the Ghetto
- Nine In the Forest and with the Partisans
- Part Three Postwar Tears in Europe and in Israel (1944–1949)
- Ten From the Land of the Holocaust to the Land of Life
- Eleven The <i>Bricha</i> (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade
- Twelve <i>Nakam</i>: The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge
- Thirteen Information Officer of the Givati Brigade During the War of Independence
- Part Four A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949–1987) “How, my friend, is my poetry different from yours?”
- Fourteen Serving the Party and at Odds with It “Has the time come to forgive Germany?”
- Fifteen The Holocaust and Jewish History
- Sixteen The Kibbutz Rebbe
- Seventeen Family and Friends
- Eighteen Finis
- Writings of Abba Kovner
- Unpublished Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
The Last Days of the Ghetto
The Last Days of the Ghetto
“And say with me / My mother /My mother” September 1-September 24, 1943
- Chapter:
- (p.132) Eight The Last Days of the Ghetto
- Source:
- The Fall of a Sparrow
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter discusses the final days of the ghetto. On 23 September 1943, German and Ukrainian units surrounded the ghetto, their cruelty matched only by the Lithuanians'. It had been announced that the entire ghetto population would be sent to camps in Estonia. The Jews broke into the scanty food stores and emptied them, and they brought supplies to the melinas. A few hundred decided to hide and hold out until the Red Army arrived. With no leaders and under the assumption that they really were being sent to Estonia, thousands of Jews presented themselves at the gate. After a night of pouring rain in the square with no shelter, the men were sent to Estonia, along with some of the women who were masquerading as men in order to go with them. The young women were taken to Latvia, the older women and children went to be killed at Majdanek, and the old and sick were murdered at Ponar. The ghetto was almost entirely empty, and those who had stayed behind were in hiding.
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Childhood and Youth (1918–1941)
- One Childhood in Sevastopol and Youth in Vilna
- Two In Independent Lithuania
- Three Under Soviet Rule
- Part Two Holocaust and War (1941–1944)
- Four Hiding in a Monastery
- Five The Manifesto of January 1, 1942
- Six The Establishment and Training of the Underground
- Seven The Wittenberg Affair
- Eight The Last Days of the Ghetto
- Nine In the Forest and with the Partisans
- Part Three Postwar Tears in Europe and in Israel (1944–1949)
- Ten From the Land of the Holocaust to the Land of Life
- Eleven The <i>Bricha</i> (Escape from Europe) and the East European Survivors' Brigade
- Twelve <i>Nakam</i>: The Blood of Israel Will Take Revenge
- Thirteen Information Officer of the Givati Brigade During the War of Independence
- Part Four A Life of Activity and Creativity (1949–1987) “How, my friend, is my poetry different from yours?”
- Fourteen Serving the Party and at Odds with It “Has the time come to forgive Germany?”
- Fifteen The Holocaust and Jewish History
- Sixteen The Kibbutz Rebbe
- Seventeen Family and Friends
- Eighteen Finis
- Writings of Abba Kovner
- Unpublished Sources
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
