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Title:Three Tragic Heroes of the Vilnius Ghetto : Witenberg, Sheinbaum, Gens
Author:N N Shneidman
ISBN:0889627851 : 9780889627857
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:174
Weight: .262 Kg.
Published:Mosaic Press - December 2002
List Price: 12.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:The Holocaust


Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno), the capital of Lithuania, has been one of the main centres of Jewish cultural, religious, social and political activity of the Diaspora since the middle ages. At one time, one half of the city inhabitants were Jewish. Everything changed during the Holocaust. The Jewish community was destroyed by the Nazis and their collaborators. But there were those who refused to surrender without a fight. Witenberg and Sheinbaum were the leaders of the Jewish underground resistance organisations in the Vilnius ghetto. Gens was the Jewish Head of the ghetto, appointed to this position by the German authorities. Each person had the same objective -- personal and communal survival. All three perished during the destruction of the Jewish ghetto. These three figures constitute the 'Three Tragic Heroes of the Vilnius Ghetto'. This book compares the different approaches to the issues of resistance and survival and illuminates the specific problems of Jewish resistance and also the larger dilemma of survival during the Nazi era.