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638:. The Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye organized an uprising and was able to rescue him after he was seized in the apartment of Jacob Gens in a fight with Jewish ghetto police. Gens brought in heavies, the leaders of the work brigades, and effectively turned the majority of the population against the resistance members, claiming they were provoking the Germans and asking rhetorically whether it was worth sacrificing tens of thousands for the sake of one man. Ghetto prisoners assembled and demanded the FPO give Wittenberg up. Ultimately, Wittenberg himself made the decision to submit to Nazi demands. He was taken to Gestapo headquarters in Vilnius and was reportedly found dead in his cell the next morning. Most people believed he had committed suicide. The rumour was that Gens had slipped him a 285: 807: 738: 494:
Infection"). Mortality rates did, indeed, increase in the Vilna Ghetto as compared with before the war. However, due largely to the efforts of the ghetto's Health Department, the Vilna Ghetto had no major epidemics despite malnourishment, cold, and overcrowding. According to Dr. Lazar Epstein, head of Sanitary-Epidemiological Section of the ghetto's Health Department, the inmates of the ghetto, left to their own devices, could have lived a very long time, certainly to the end of the war, despite the numerous privations.
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Haskole Library, which was called the "House of Culture". It contained a library of 45,000 volumes, reading hall, archive, statistical bureau, room for scientific work, museum, book kiosk, post office, and sports ground. Groups, such as the Literary and Artistic Union and the Brit Ivrit Union, organized events commemorating Yiddish and Hebrew authors and put on plays in these languages. The popular Yiddish magazine
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for the event) streets, by two Lithuanians in civilian clothes who had broken into an apartment belonging to Jews. The Lithuanians fled the apartment, then returned with awaiting German soldiers, captured two Jews, accused them of firing on the German soldiers, beat them and then shot them on the spot. Stiklių and Mėsinių (Jatkowa) streets were ransacked by the local
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who, with the cooperation of his officers and men, was able to shield the Jewish auto-workers from much of the abuse slave laborers were ordinarily subjected to. When the Red Army approached Vilna and the SS came to take over the camp, Plagge gave his workers a covert warning; some workers escaped,
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Murer, Hingst, and Vilnius mayor Karolis Dabulevičius selected the site for the future ghetto and staged a distant sniping at German soldiers in front of a cinema, from a window on the corner of Stiklių (Glezer, meaning Szklana in Polish) and Didžioji (Wielka, Great Street in Polish, hence the name
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of 1 October 1941, the Germans ordered the Judenrat to lead the arrests leading to the death of 1,983 people; residents found by the Jewish police lacking work permits were arrested and transferred to German custody. The same month the Germans liquidated the small ghetto, where they had relocated
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The Ghetto Theatre was a great source of revenue and had a calming effect on the public. A total of 111 performances had been given by January 10, 1943, with a total of 34,804 tickets sold. The theatre was renovated to accommodate a larger audience and be better-looking to public eye. The theatre
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The Vilna Ghetto was called "Yerushalayim of the Ghettos" because it was known for its intellectual and cultural spirit. Before the war, Vilnius had been known as "Yerushalayim d'Lita" (Yiddish: Jerusalem of Lithuania) for the same reason. The center of cultural life in the ghetto was the Mefitze
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Among all the European Jewish communities during WWII, the Lithuanian one was the most affected by the Holocaust. Rising to 265,000 individuals in June 1941, it was decimated and lost 254,000, or 95%, of its members during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. The Green House Museum, a branch of the
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except for some very limited restrictions on the movement and settlement of Jews during the Middle Ages, the area chosen by the Nazis for their ghetto was predominantly and historically inhabited by Jews. The Nazis split the area into two Jewish quarters (Large Ghetto and Small Ghetto), with a
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When the Germans came to liquidate the ghetto in September 1943, members of the FPO went on alert. Gens took control of the liquidation in order to keep the Nazi forces out of the ghetto and away from a partisan ambush, but helped fill the quota of Jews with those who could fight but were not
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Jewish Vilna was known for its distinguished medical tradition, which inmates of the ghetto managed to maintain to some degree during the Holocaust. As with most ghettos established by the Germans, a sign was put right outside in front stating: "Achtung! Seuchengefahr" ("Attention! Danger of
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to the west, minus a small number who managed to flee onward to the Soviet Union. The kidnapping and mass murder of Jews in the city commenced before the ghetto was set up by the advancing German forces, resulting in an execution of approximately 21,000 victims prior to 6 September 1941. The
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others hid in hiding places they had prepared with Plagge's knowledge, from which they subsequently escaped. Two-hundred and fifty Jews at HKP 562 survived the war. They represent the single largest group of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust in Vilnius.
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and the ruler of the Vilna Ghetto, was given the responsibility for the starting of this theatre. Performances included poetry readings by Jewish authors, dramatizations of short stories, and new work by the young people of the ghetto.
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and opened in the summer of 1943, in the last week of the ghetto's existence. The play, set in an American saloon during a flood, featured a group of people who banded together during a time of danger and need.
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The two-ghetto arrangement made it easier for the Nazis to control what the victims knew of their fate beforehand, facilitating the Nazis' goal of total extermination. A two-ghetto model was also used in
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and force the rest of the more affluent Jewish residents into the new German-envisioned ghetto, the Nazis staged – as a pretext – the Great Provocation incident on 31 August 1941, led by
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In 2021 a virtual 360-degree tour about the former Vilnius Ghetto was created to present arts, education and creative endeavours within the ghetto in horrifying circumstances.
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On 6–7 September 1941, the Nazis herded the remaining 20,000 Jews into the two ghettos by evicting them from their homes, during which 3,700 were killed.
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ceased and some semblance of normal life resumed. The quiet period continued until 6 August, when the Germans commenced the deportation of 7,130 Jews to
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permitted the inhabitants to display their power through plays and songs; for instance, one of the songs that was sung was called "Endurance".
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The FPO was demoralized by this chain of events and began to pursue a policy of sending young people out to the forest to join other
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The Jewish population of Vilnius on the eve of the Holocaust was at least 60,000, some estimates say 80,000, including refugees from
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established in a Nazi ghetto. Unlike in other ghettos, the resistance movement in the Vilna Ghetto was not run by ghetto officials.
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The area designated for the ghetto was the old Jewish quarter in the center of the city. While Vilna never had a ghetto
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Fleche, Anne. "Ghetto: The Last Performance In the Vilna Ghetto." Theater Journal, Vol. 41, no. 4 (1989): 539-540.
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Testimony of Grzegorz Jaszuński concerning life in the Wilno Ghetto in "Chronicles of Terror" testimony database
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Only several hundred people managed to survive, mostly by hiding in the forests surrounding the city, joining
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Article regarding the last letters from the Vilna Ghetto (from Yisroel & Chava Levovitz) 1943 and 1944
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939–1944
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The revival of the Vilnius University in 1919: Historical conditions and importance for Polish science
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939–1944
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Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia
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A small group of Jews remained in Vilna after the liquidation of the ghetto, primarily at the
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From the establishment of the ghetto until January 1942, task groups of German and Lithuanian
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necessarily part of the resistance. The FPO fled to the forest and fought with the partisans.
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Article regarding the Piramont Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius The Times of Israel 16 August 2021
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Feierstein, Daniel. "The Jewish Resistance Movements in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe." In:
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
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Rozka Korczak & Abba Kovner with members of the United Partisan Organization (FPO)
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Beinfield, Solon. "The Culture Life Of The Vilna Ghetto." (1997): Annual 1 Chapter 1.
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The Vilna Ghetto was well known for its theatrical productions during World War II.
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Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Vilnius, A Personal Perspective
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killed more than 21,000 Jews living in Vilnius, in a mass extermination program.
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Straszuna Street (the Polish name), now Žemaitijos Street, in the former ghetto
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non-ghetto corridor running down Deutschegasse (Niemiecka or Vokiečių) Street.
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was continued in the ghetto and its essays were presented in public lectures.
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was awarded the Order of Merits from Germany for this achievement in 2021.
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Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past
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city since the Polish-Lithuanian borders were delineated in 1922 by the
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camps reduced the ghetto's population from an estimated 40,000 to zero.
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The Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Story of the Jewish Community of Vilna
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A monument in memory of the Jews of Vilnius who were murdered in the
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forced labour camps. Inmates of HKP 562 repaired automobiles for the
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In order to pacify the predominantly poorer Jewish quarter in the
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of Jews and Poles. Throughout the summer, German troops and their
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Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators
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The Security Policy of Lithuania and the 'Integration Dilemma'
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in Estonia, killed in the forest of Paneriai, or sent to the
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underground, who, under torture, revealed some contacts; the
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Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, exile
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recounts the last days of the Vilna Ghetto theatre company.
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transferred Wilno to Lithuania in October, according to the
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Lithuanian Nazi policeman with Jewish prisoners, July 1941
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Wooden synagogues in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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Beinfeld, Solon. "Health Care in the Vilna Ghetto." 12
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of the Vilnius municipality Hans Christian Hingst and
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regularly carried out the surprise operations called
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SPIEGEL, Johannes Sachslehner, DER (12 March 2018).
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During the approximately two years of its existence
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Wilno Ghetto

Julian Klaczko
Vilna Ghetto is located in Lithuania
Vilnius Old Town
54°40′40″N 25°16′59″E / 54.67778°N 25.28306°E / 54.67778; 25.28306
Nazi SS
Ypatingasis būrys
Kailis forced labor camp
HKP 562 forced labor camp
World War II Jewish ghetto
Nazi Germany
Vilnius
Lithuania
Reichskommissariat Ostland
starvation
disease
concentration
extermination
Soviet partisans
sheltering with sympathetic locals
invasion of Poland
Wilno
Wilno Voivodship
Second Polish Republic
Polish
Yiddish
Lithuanian-speaking
a small minority
a well respected university

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