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This eye-witness account details the destruction of Vilna Jewry at the hands of the Nazis. Its chronicle of life in the two Vilna ghettos is the only historical document describing life in the small ghetto from its formation until its liquidation. The book is a historical document of primary importance. It is also an expression of the innermost thoughts and feelings of a single individual whose will to survive and to bring this story to the judgement of future generations was stronger than iron.

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Mendel Balberyszski, born in Vilna, completed pharmaceutical studies at the Vilna University and the Warsaw University. After surviving the Vilna ghettos and the Estonian concentration camps, he was reunited with his family and they emigrated to Australia, where his Balberyszski Jewish Bookstore became a communal landmark. Balberyszski died in Melbourne, Australia, on November 19, 1966.

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