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How dark the heavens : 1400 days in the grip of Nazi terror / by Sidney Iwens.

Title
How dark the heavens : 1400 days in the grip of Nazi terror / by Sidney Iwens.
Author
Iwens, Sidney, 1924-
Publication
New York : Shengold Publishers, c1990.

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Mazal Holocaust Collection TxSaTAM
Description
291 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
Memoirs describing the author's flight from Jonava, Lithuania, to Daugavpils, Latvia, in the first days of the war; life in the Daugavpils ghetto; escape to join a partisan unit, and his experiences with the partisans in Belarus, where he encountered negative attitudes toward Jews. He was expelled, along with other Jews, from the partisan unit and returned to Lithuania. Interned in the ghetto of Siauliai, he was deported to Stutthof and then to Dachau. The attitude of the local population to the Jews in the countries in which he stayed was never friendly - at best it was indifferent, but there were numerous collaborators who participated in mass killings of Jews.
Alternative Title
1400 days in the grip of Nazi terror
Subject
  • Iwens, Sidney, 1924-
  • 1939-1945
  • Jews > Lithuania > Biography
  • Jews > Latvia > Biography
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Lithuania > Personal narratives
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Latvia > Personal narratives
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance > Belarus
  • Lithuania > Biography
  • Latvia > Biography
Genre/Form
Personal narratives
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0884001474
LCCN
^^^90052879^
OCLC
  • 22488500
  • SCSB-11828121
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library