In 1944, the famous Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was commissioned by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow to write a memoir of his two years in the Vilna Ghetto. Published in 1946, it appears now in English for the first time on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Trials, at which Sutzkever personally testified.
In commemoration Kristallnacht, Smith College professor Justin Cammy, editor and translator of the volume, discusses what we can learn about this early moment in the making of Holocaust history and memory.