Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder by Sakowicz, Kazimierz

Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder

A chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews, recorded by a non-Jew About sixty...
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Author: Kazimierz Sakowicz
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Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder by Sakowicz, Kazimierz

Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder

$198.93

Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder

$198.93
Author: Kazimierz Sakowicz
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews, recorded by a non-Jew

About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the murder of these Jews as well as to the murders of thousands of non-Jews on an almost daily basis. He chronicled these events in a diary that he kept at great personal risk.


Written as a simple account of what Sakowicz witnessed, the diary is devoid of personal involvement or identification with the victims. It is thus a unique document: testimony from a bystander, an "objective" observer without an emotional or a political agenda, to the extermination of the Jews of the city known as "the Jerusalem of Lithuania."


Sakowicz did not survive the war, but much of his diary did. Painstakingly pieced together by Rahel Margolis from scraps of paper hidden in various locations, the diary was published in Polish in 1999. It is here published in English for the first time, extensively annotated by Yitzhak Arad to guide readers through the events at Ponary.



Author: Kazimierz Sakowicz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/01/2005
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.76w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780300108538

About the Author

YITZHAK ARAD is the author of Ghetto in Flames: The Struggle and Destruction of the Jews in Vilna and former chairman of the Directorate of Yad Vashem.




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