TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sakowicz,Kazimierz
AU  - Arad,Yitzhak
TI  - Ponary diary, 1941-1943: a bystander's account of a mass murder 
SN  - 9780300129175 (ebook)
AV  - DS135.L52 V5569413 2005eb
U1  - 940.53/18/094793 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Sakowicz, Kazimierz,
KW  - Jews
KW  - Persecutions
KW  - Lithuania
KW  - Vilnius
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Holocaust
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Vilnius (Lithuania)
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - ებრაელი ხალხის ისტორია
KW  - ლიტველი ებრაელები
KW  - დღიურები
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius), present-day Lithuania, and surrounding townships 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
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