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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps 1939-1944 is a notable chronicle of life as a Jew in the Vilna Ghetto and later in concentration camps. It was written by Herman Kruk who buried his diaries inside the camp at KZ Lagedi in Estonia the day he was put to death. It was published posthumously.
While confined to the Vilna Ghetto, he organized and oversaw the creation and operation of a library in the Ghetto.
He continued chronicling his experiences after he was interred in Nazi concentration camps until he was murdered on September 17, 1944.
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The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA