Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217). |
Contents |
pt. 1. The Woman in the Park -- Vilnius -- Correspondence -- Ona Simaite's Letters to Marijona Čilvinaitę, 1957-1958 -- Caregiving and Letters -- pt. 2. A Childhood Tale -- Russian Letters -- Everyday Writings -- pt. 3. Ghetto -- Mowszowicz -- Letters to Kazys Jakubėnas, 1941-1943 -- Destruction of the Ghetto -- pt. 4. Kazys -- Kazys's Death -- Alfonsas's Theory -- pt. 5. Catholicism, Sex, and Sin -- Mothering -- pt. 6. Ludelange -- Freedom -- Toulouse -- Letters to New York -- La Courtine -- pt. 7. The Ghetto Library -- Librarians -- Writing a Woman's Life -- pt. 8. Alduta -- Family Letters -- Soviet Schizophrenia -- Death in Vilnius -- Paris 1968 -- Single and Crazy -- pt. 9. Cormeilles -- October. |
Summary |
The librarian walks the streets of her beloved Paris. An old lady with a limp and an accent, she is invisible to most. Certainly no one recognizes her as the warrior and revolutionary she was, when again and again she slipped into the Jewish ghetto of German-occupied Vilnius to carry food, clothes, medicine, money, and counterfeit documents to its prisoners. Often she left with letters to deliver, manuscripts to hide, and even sedated children swathed in sacks. In 1944 she was captured by the Gestapo, tortured for twelve days, and deported to Dachau. Through Epistolophilia, Julija Šukys fol. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970.
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Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970. |
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Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 -- Correspondence.
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Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 -- Diaries.
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Diaries.
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Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970. |
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Jews rescue (World War) (1939-1945) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Biography -- Authorship.
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Biography -- Authorship. |
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Biography. |
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. |
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Lithuania -- Vilnius. |
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Biographies.
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Holocaust survivors -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
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Holocaust survivors. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
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Librarians -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography.
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Librarians. |
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Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography.
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Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
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Electronic books.
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Records and correspondence.
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Biographies.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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Diaries.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Šukys, Julija. Epistolophilia. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012 9780803236325 (DLC) 2011030426 (OCoLC)744977253 |
ISBN |
9780803240308 (electronic book) |
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0803240309 (electronic book) |
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9780803236325 |
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0803236328 |
Standard No. |
9786613664457 |
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