Description: In 1944, Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters. He was encouraged by Ilya Ehrenburg to write a memoir. From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg returns readers to a moment when the scale of the Holocaust was first coming into focus, through the eyes of one survivor who attempted to make sense of daily life, resistance, and death in the ghetto.
Brief description: Abraham Sutzkever (1913-2010) was an acclaimed Yiddish poet. He achieved international fame/recognition as a young writer in interwar Poland, and then settled in Tel-Aviv where he became a link between the fate of European Jewry and the rebuilding of Jewish life in Israel.
Review Quotes: "This book is a must-read for any student and scholar of the Holocaust. It is a captivating documentation of life in the Vilna Ghetto, with valuable additional material about the poet's Nuremberg testimony and encounters with Soviet Yiddish writers. Cammy and Novershtern's stellar editing and translation make the book an indispensable tool for delineating the complex historical and political contexts of Sutzkever's poetry during and after the war." LA Review of Books