Siauliai, Lithuania

Memorial Book of Shavli;
A Diary from a Lithuanian Ghetto (1941-1944)
(Šiauliai, Lithuania)

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Translation of
Pinkas Shavli – Yoman mi-Ghetto Lita

Edited by: Eliezer Yerushalmi

Published in Jerusalem, 1958

This is a translation from: Pinkas Shavli – Yoman mi-Ghetto Lita; Memorial Book of Shavli – A Diary from a Lithuanian Ghetto (1941 - 1944);
ed. Eliezer Yerushalmi, Jerusalem, 1958 (420 pages, Hebrew)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Siauliai

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

		Page

Foreword	B. Dinur	7
About the book		9
Introduction		13

The Siauliai Pinkas [register]
The year 1941		31
The year 1942		57
The year 1943		152
The year 1944		347
Appendix I: Continuation of the history of the Siauliai Jews until their transfer to Germany		379
Appendix II: Camp Polangen	Memories of Mordechai Yerushalmi z”l	394
Appendix III: About Camp Bianishek	Testimony of the executive board member Shmuel Burgin	402
Appendix IV: Poems and songs from the Siauliai Ghetto		404
Appendix V: Four German documents about the Siauliai Ghetto		407

Maps
The Siauliai Ghetto		413
The Siauliai Ghetto, Caucasus region		414
The Siauliai Ghetto, Trako region		415
Index of places		416

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