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Ponary Diary, 1941 - 1943: A Bystander's Account Of A Mass Murder
About sixty thousand Jews from Wilno (Vilnius, Jewish Vilna) and surrounding townships in present-day Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators in huge pits on the outskirts of Ponary. Over a period of several years, Kazimierz Sakowicz, a Polish journalist who lived in the village of Ponary, was an eyewitness to the murder of these Jews as wel...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
December 10th 2005
by Yale University Press
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Ponary Diary is Kazimierz Sakowicz's objective notes reporting out on the extermination of Jews, Poles, and Soviets in his town of Ponary. He writes entries on pieces of paper then stuffs the sheets into lemonade bottles before burying them in his yard. The bottles are dug up after the war and pieced together; the entries were first published in Polish in 1999.
Entries are interspersed with historical information and context that helps the reader understand what is going on, which I ...more
Entries are interspersed with historical information and context that helps the reader understand what is going on, which I ...more
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