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Author(s): Kazimierz Sakowicz
ISBN(s): 9780300108538, 0300108532
Edition: First Edition
File Details: PDF, 1.39 MB
Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0300108532 
ISBN 13: 9780300108538
Author: Kazimierz Sakowicz

A chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews recorded by a non-Jew

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 well as to the murders of thousands of non-Jews on an almost daily basis. He chronicled these events in a diary that he kept at great personal risk.

Written as a simple account of what Sakowicz witnessed the diary is devoid of personal involvement or identification with the victims. It is thus a unique document: testimony from a bystander an “objective” observer without an emotional or a political agenda to the extermination of the Jews of the city known as “the Jerusalem of Lithuania.”

Sakowicz did not survive the war but much of his diary did. Painstakingly pieced together by Rahel Margolis from scraps of paper hidden in various locations the diary was published in Polish in 1999. It is here published in English for the first time extensively annotated by Yitzhak Arad to guide readers through the events at Ponary.

Ponary Diary 1941 1943 A Bystander s Account of Mass Murder 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Setting: Ponary and Its Significance

  • Geographical and Historical Context of Ponary

  • Nazi Occupation of Vilnius and the Surrounding Area

  • The First Signs of Violence: Early Persecution of Jews

Chapter 2: Life Under Occupation

  • Daily Life in Vilnius During Nazi Rule

  • Impact on Jewish Communities: Forced Labor, Ghettos, and Deportations

  • The Role of Local Collaborators in the Nazi Regime

Chapter 3: The Mass Murders Begin

  • The Decision to Use Ponary as a Killing Site

  • Descriptions of the First Executions

  • The Methods of Mass Murder: Einsatzgruppen and Their Role

  • The Psychological and Emotional Impact on Witnesses

Chapter 4: Inside the Killing Fields

  • Details of the Execution Process

  • Testimonies from Survivors and Other Witnesses

  • How the Local Population Reacted to the Atrocities

Chapter 5: A Bystander’s Perspective

  • The Author’s Own Struggle with Silence and Complicity

  • The Challenges of Being a Passive Witness to Mass Murder

  • The Difficult Decision of Whether to Act or Remain Silent

Chapter 6: The Aftermath of the Massacres

  • How the Killing at Ponary Continued Over the Years

  • The Psychological and Physical Toll on the Local Population

  • Attempts by the Nazis to Cover Up the Crimes

Chapter 7: The End of the War and the Fate of Ponary

  • Soviet Liberation of the Area and Its Aftermath

  • The Fate of the Murdered and the Survivors

  • The Search for Justice After the War

Chapter 8: The Memory of Ponary

  • The Struggle to Remember and Document the Atrocities

  • The Role of Historical Documentation and Personal Accounts

  • Reflections on the Legacy of Ponary and the Holocaust

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