The Truth and Nothing But the Truth: Jewish Resistance in Lithuania

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Gefen Publishing House Ltd, 2006 - 520 páginas
In this, the authors twelfth book, Faitelson tells the exhaustive and authentic story of the escape from the Ninth Fort at Kovno. Faitelsons original account was published in seven languages. This new edition presents a broad gallery of cynical and cruel Nazi murderers wild beasts on two legs, the organisers and leaders of the mass murder of the Jews of Kovno, as well as the thousands of Jews brought to the Ninth Fort from central and western Europe. At the same time, there is a description of the Actions the mass murders of men, women, children and the elderly whose only crime was to be born to a Jewish mother. At the heart of the story are the corpse-burners, the preparations they made to escape from hell, the escape itself and the fate of the escapees.
 

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INTRODUCTION
5
SIXTY YEARS SINCE HELL
12
Murder in the Lietukis Garage
14
The Seventh Fort
36
The Palace of Physical Culture in Kaunas A Nest of Murderers?
52
They Escaped a Just Sentence
69
The Fate of Itzhak Nemenchik
86
The Gradual Murder
90
From the Ghetto to the Forest
239
Aftermath of the Escape
246
The Destiny of the Escapees
271
LEGENDS AND FABLES
306
From Those Who Were There
308
Other Voices
340
Forgery Communist Style
396
The Tricks of Memory
419

We Are Partisans
93
The Ninth Fort The Fortress of Death
96
The CorpseBurners
104
Erasing the Traces
120
The Actions Organized Mass Murder
128
Escape Plans
161
Meir Yellins Hiding Place
211
The Malina
222
Everyones a Hero
456
APPENDIX
490
Publications by Alex Faitelson
491
Comments on Previous Works by Alex Faitelson
492
BIBLIOGRAPHY
502
INDEX OF NAMES
505
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Página 8 - The crucial day of reckoning has come for the Jews at last. Lithuania must be liberated not only from Asiatic Bolshevik slavery but also from the long-standing Jewish yoke.
Página 37 - Between June 25 and July 8, 1941, thousands of Jews from Kovno were rounded up by Lithuanian militiamen and taken to the Seventh Fort.
Página 7 - Jew had to wear a yellow Star of David on the left side of his chest.

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