The Shadow of Death: The Holocaust in Lithuania

Contents

Contents Foreword by Theodore S. Hamerow ix Acknowledgments xvii 1. Before the War 1 2. The Russian Invasion 9 3. The War Begins 22 4. The Purge of Slobodka 37 5. Moving to the Ghetto 41 6. In the Ghetto 43 7. The Collection ofValuables 46 8. The First Practice Massacre 50 9. The Airfield Work Brigade 55 10. The Liquidation ofthe Little Ghetto 59 11. Life in the Big Ghetto 63 12. The Big Liquidation 65 13. The Workshops and the Small Brigades 69 14. The Jewish Police 73 15. New Life and New Work 75 16. Koshedar 88 17. Back in the Ghetto 99 18. Escape from the Ghetto 106 19. A New Work Brigade 115 20. Red Plantation 118 21. The Obersturmbannfuhrer 122 22. The Liquidation ofthe Helpless 126 23. The Partisans in the Woods 131 24. Kazlu Ruda and Escape 135 25. Deportation to the Concentration Camps 139 viii Contents 26. Auschwitz 143 27. Dachau, Camp Number One 147 28. The Sick Camp 152 29. Liberation 157 30. In the Hospital 162 31. The DP Camp 166 32. The Voyage to the United States 171 33. The New Life 173 Maps Lithuania 2 Kovno City Center 5 Kovno and Its Suburbs 10 The Kovno Ghetto 40 Illustrations follow page 142 ...