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The Shadow of Death

The Holocaust in Lithuania

Harry Gordon author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University Press of Kentucky

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" Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.

A powerful tribute to the human spirit and the will and determination of one human being to survive in a hell not of one's own making. - CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly ""Gordon's memoir of surviving the Holocaust in Lithuania is told from the perspective of a youth who grew up in a large, supportive family circle but learned how to endure through his own wit and by confronting the worst of human nature."" - Library Journal

ISBN: 9780813190082

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264 pages