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The Holocaust in Lithuania Reading List for Teachers of Holocaust Studies

Materials for Educators and Students prepared by www.HolocaustInTheBaltics.com

DRAFT OF 9 AUGUST 2010

I: ONLINE RESOURCES

Yitzhak Arad, “The „Final Solution‟ in Lithuania in the Light of German

Documentation”. Yad Vashem, at: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/documents/studies/The_Final_Solution.pdf

Solomonas Atamukas, “The Hard Long Road to the Truth: On the Sixtieth Anniversary

of the Holocaust in Lithuania” in Lituanus (Winter 2001). At: http://www.lituanus.org/2001/01_4_03.htm

Leonidas Donskis, “Another Word for Uncertainty: Antisemitism in Modern

Lithuania” in Nordeuropa Forum 1/2006. At: http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/nordeuropaforum/2006-1/donskis-leonidas-7/PDF/donskis.pdf

Leonidas Donskis, “The Inflation of Genocide” in EuropeanVoice.com, 24 July 2009.

At: http://www.operationlastchance.org/LITHUANIA_32-21.htm

Clemens Heni, “The Prague Declaration, Holocaust Trivialization and Antisemitism”.

At: http://clemensheni.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/clemens-heni-prague-declaration-antisemitism-

holocaust.pdf

Ruta Puisyte, “The Holocaust in Jurbarkas”, BA thesis (Vilnius University 1997)

supervised by Professor Meir Shub; prefaces by Meir Shub and Dov Levin; translated

into English by Joseph Rosin. At: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/yurburg/bathesis.html

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Liudas Truska, “Contemporary attitudes toward the Holocaust in Lithuania” in Jews in

Eastern Europe 2(45) 2001, pp. 5-26. At: http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/LiudasTruska2001.pdf

Katy Miller-Korpi, “The Holocaust in the Baltics” in SCAND 344, May 1998. At: http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/holocaust.html

Efraim Zuroff: “Eastern Europe: Antisemitism in the Wake of Holocaust Related

Issues” in Jewish Political Studies Review, 2005. At: http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-zuroff-s05.htm

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Encyclopedia: “Lithuania”. At: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005444

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

Lithuania and the Jews: The Holocaust Chapter. Symposium Presentations. At: http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/publications/occasional/2005-07-03/paper.pdf

Yad Vashem Shoah Resource Center: “Lithuania”. At: http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206436.pdf

Yad Vashem Shoah Resource Center. Extract from a Report by Karl Jaeger. At: http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%202007.pdf

II: BOOKS AND PAPERS

Yitzhak Arad, The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. University of Nebraska: Lincoln & Yad

Vashem: Jerusalem 2009, 701 pp.

Yitzhak Arad, Ghetto in Flames. Holocaust Publications: Washington DC 1983.

Christoph Dieckmann, “The Role of Lithuanians in the Holocaust” = pp. 149-168 in Beate

Kosmola and Feliks Tych (eds), Facing the Nazi Genocide: Non-Jews and Jews in Europe,

Berlin: Metropol, 2004.

David Gaunt, Collaboration and Resistance during the Holocaust: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Peter Lang: Bern 2004.

Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy. Fontana / Collins 1990 [and other

editions]. On Lithuania: pp. 51, 78, 154, 182, 234-5, 281, 339. 620, 722, 798-9, 799. On

Vilnius: pp. 22, 39, 60, 91, 92, 168, 170, 177, 185-6, 192-5, 206-8, 216-7, 219, 228, 233, 234,

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246, 339, 486, 544, 559, 568-9, 583, 590, 592-3, 595, 598, 606-7, 608, 620, 699, 703-4, 735,

777, 788. On Kaunas: pp. 51, 117-8, 124, 153, 155, 157, 161, 168, 178, 180-1, 189-90, 196,

199, 208, 222-7, 229, 234, 235, 323, 520, 554, 593-4, 640-1, 645-6, 664, 678. 702, 741, 783,

786, 799.

Martin Gilbert, Atlas of the Holocaust. William Morrow 1993 [and other editions]. On

Lithuania: Maps 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 25, 26, 33, 36, 42, 74, 75, 87, 88, 98, 99, 182, 214, 274, 316.

On Vilnius: 1, 2, 4. 11, 14, 28, 3, 71, 73, 75, 83, 86, 87, 94, 96, 98, 170, 176, 185, 186, 195,

202, 208, 209, 210, 215, 219, 224, 226, 244, 247, 260, 261, 267, 272, 274, 308, 311, 313, 314.

Martin Gilbert, Never Again. Universe Publishing [and other editions; also available in

Lithuanian translation]. On Lithuania: pp. 12, 13, 19, 20, 22, 49, 62, 63, 64, 64, 71, 99, 105,

109, 147, 151, 153, 158, 160, 177. On Vilnius: pp. 17, 38, 40, 41, 44, 48, 56, 68, 69, 70, 79,

81, 119, 125, 163, 167, 168, 175. On Kaunas: pp. 7, 17, 49, 63, 68, 69, 78, 96-9, 100, 101,

109, 119, 124, 125, 148, 152, 161, 171, 174.

Sara Ginaite, Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941-

1944. Mosaic Press: Oakville, Ontario 2006. [also available in Lithuanian]

Masha Greenbaum, “The Bloodbath” = pp 302-339 in her The Jews of Lithuania. A History of a Remarkable Community 1316-1945. Gefen Publishing House: Jerusalem & Hewlett, NY

1995.

Dovid Katz, “On three definitions: Genocide, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Obfuscation” in

Leonidas Donskis (ed), A Litmus Test Case of Modernity. Examining Modern Sensibilities and

the Public Domain in the Baltic States at the Turn of the Century [= Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe 5], Peter Lang: Bern 2009, pp 259-277. At: http://www.holocaustinthebaltics.com/2009SeptDovidKatz3Definitions.pdf

Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen & Volker Riess (eds), “Pogroms in Kaunas and elsewhere in

Lithuania” = pp 23-58 in their 'The Good Old Days'. The Holocaust as Seen by its Perpetrators

and Bystanders. Foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper [Oxford University]. Free Press (Macmillan):

New York 1991.

Herman Kruk, The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Edited and introduced by Benjamin Harshav. Translated by Barbara Harshav. Yivo and Yale University Press: New

Haven & London 2002.

Dov Levin, “World War II, the Holocaust and the Jewish Survivors” = pp 187-247 in his The Litvaks. A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania. Yad Vashem: Jerusalem 2000.

Joseph Levinson (ed), The Shoah (Holocaust) in Lithuania. Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum:

Vilnius 2006. [Note: original edition in Lithuanian]

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Rachel Margolis, Partisan from Vilna [memoir]. With an introduction by Professor Antony

Polonsky. Afterword by Marjorie Margolis. Academic Studies Press: Boston 2010.

Ephraim Oshry, The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry. Judaica Press: New York 1995. [original

Yiddish edition: Khurbn Lite, NY 1951]

Dina Porat, “The Holocaust in Lithuania. Some Unique Aspects” = pp. 159-174 in David

Cesarani (ed.), The Final Solution. Origins and Implementation, Rutledge: New York 1996.

Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman (eds), “Lithuania” = pp 277-315 in their The Unknown Black Book. The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories. Indiana University

Press: Bloomington & Indianapolis 2008.

Kazimierz Sakowicz, Ponary Diary 1941-1943. A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder.

Edited by Yitzhak Arad. Preface by Rachel Margolis [rediscoverer of the manuscript and

publisher of the original Polish edition of 1999]. Yale University Press: New Haven & London

2005.

N.N. Shneidman, Jerusalem of Lithuania: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Vilnius. Mosaic Press:

Oakville, Ontario 2002.

N.N. Shneidman, Three Tragic Heroes of the Vilnius Ghetto. Mosaic Press: Oakville, Ontario

2002.

Lyn Smith, Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust. Carroll & Graf: New York [memoir by

Juozas Aleksynas, member of the 12th & 13th Lithuanian police battalion, on pp 96-98].

Karen Sutton, The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania. Lithuanian Collaboration in the Final

Solution 1941-1944. Gefen Publishing House: Jerusalem & New York 2008.

Abraham Tory, Surviving the Holocaust. The Kovno Ghetto Diary. Edited with an introduction

by Martin Gilbert. Textual and historical notes by Dina Porat. Harvard University Press:

Cambridge, Mass 1990.

Tomas Venclova, “Jews and Lithuanians” in his Forms of Hope. Sheep Meadow Press: 2002.

Isaac Zibuts et al, The Sounds of Silence. Traces of Jewish Life in Lithuania. R. Paknio

Leidykla: Vilnius 2009. [Note: parallel, concurrent edition in Lithuanian]

Efraim Zuroff, Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice. Palgrave Macmillan: New York & Basingstoke 2009.