The Truth and Nothing but the Truth: Jewish Resistance in Lithuania (1941-1944)

by Alex Faitelson

Overview

In this, the authors twelfth book, Faitelson tells the exhaustive and authentic story of the escape from the Ninth Fort at Kovno. Faitelsons original account was published in seven languages. This new edition presents a broad gallery of cynical and cruel Nazi murderers wild beasts on two legs, the organisers and leaders of the mass murder of the Jews of Kovno, as well as the thousands of Jews brought to the Ninth Fort from central and western Europe. At the same time, there is a description of the Actions the mass murders of men, women, children and the elderly whose only crime was to be born to a Jewish mother. At the heart of the story are the corpse-burners, the preparations they made to escape from hell, the escape itself and the fate of the escapees.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789652293640
Publisher:	Gefen Publishing House
Publication date:	10/30/2006
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Alex Faitelson survived the Holocaust, having lost his parents, his kin and his friends. He was an active member of the Anti-Fascist Fighting Unit (AKO) of the Kaunas Ghetto. Faitelson received the "Isaac Zandman Prize in Literature" for the original Yiddish edition of Heroism and Bravery in Lithuania 1941-1945" from the Federation of Partisan Soldiers. The English edition of Heroism and Bravery in Lithuania (Gefen Publishing) was published in 1996.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Introduction 10

Part 1 Sixty Years Since Hell

Chapter 1 Murder in the Lietukis Garage 19

Chapter 2 The Seventh Fort 41

Chapter 3 The Palace of Physical Culture in Kaunas - A Nest of Murderers? 57

Chapter 4 They Escaped a Just Sentence 74

Chapter 5 The Fate of Itzhak Nemenchik 91

Chapter 6 The Gradual Murder 95

Chapter 7 "We Are Partisans" 98

Chapter 8 The Ninth Fort - The Fortress of Death 101

Chapter 9 The Corpse-Burners 109

Chapter 10 Erasing the Traces 125

Chapter 11 The Actions: Organized Mass Murder 133

Chapter 12 Escape Plans 166

Chapter 13 Meir Yellin's Hiding Place 216

Chapter 14 The "Marina" 227

Chapter 15 From the Ghetto to the Forest 244

Chapter 16 Aftermath of the Escape 251

Chapter 17 The Destiny of the Escapees 276

Part 2 Legends and Fables

Chapter 18 From Those Who Were There 313

Chapter 19 Other Voices 345

Chapter 20 Forgery, Communist Style 401

Chapter 21 The Tricks of Memory 424

Chapter 22 Everyone's a Hero 461

Appendix

Publications List 496

Comments on Previous Works by Alex Faitelson 497

Bibliography 507

Index of Names 510