Search & Research, Lectures and Papers 10: “And I burned with shame”: The Testimony of Ona Šimaitė: A Letter to Isaac Nachman Steinberg

 

 

Julija Šukys

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Julija Šukys received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University in Toronto. The text presented here is a startling piece of testimony. This is a letter written by a woman recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and former librarian at Vilnius University to Nachman Steinberg, the author of a number of books, a Socialist Revolutionary, and the Commissar of Justice in the Soviet Coalition government of 1917. This letter is unique and describes in details her activities during the Nazi occupation of Vilnius.

 

Julija Šukys received her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University in Toronto. The text presented here is a startling piece of testimony. This is a letter written by a woman recognized as Righteous Among the Nations and former librarian at Vilnius University to Nachman Steinberg, the author of a number of books, a Socialist Revolutionary, and the Commissar of Justice in the Soviet Coalition government of 1917. This letter is unique and describes in details her activities during the Nazi occupation of Vilnius.

 

Products specifications
Year 2007
ISBN 978-965-308-282-5
Catalog No. 457
No. of Pages 84 pp.
Size 17X24 cm.
Format Soft Cover
Publisher Yad Vashem
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