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Hidden history of the Kovno Ghetto

Author: Dennis B Klein; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©1997.
Series: A Bullfinch Press book
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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"Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto brings together unique materials from Lithuania, Israel, and the United States to present a compelling and unforgettable view of Jewish life, loss, survival, and defiance during the Holocaust." "This visual and documentary record is introduced by two essays that describe the German assault on Lithuania's Jewry and the Kovno Jews' resilient yet ultimately futile efforts to devise a  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Exhibitions
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dennis B Klein; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
ISBN: 0821224573 9780821224571 0821225308 9780821225301
OCLC Number: 38044607
Notes: "A Bullfinch Press book."
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hidden history of the Kovno Ghetto, held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., Nov. 21, 1997-Oct. 3, 1999.
Description: 255 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.
Series Title: A Bullfinch Press book
Responsibility: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ; general editor, Dennis B. Klein.

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"Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto brings together unique materials from Lithuania, Israel, and the United States to present a compelling and unforgettable view of Jewish life, loss, survival, and defiance during the Holocaust." "This visual and documentary record is introduced by two essays that describe the German assault on Lithuania's Jewry and the Kovno Jews' resilient yet ultimately futile efforts to devise a "normal" world in the ghetto. The book concludes with a Kovno Ghetto survivor's personal reminiscence and a historian's reflection on the experience."--BOOK JACKET.

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