Honoring the Rescuers (Lithuania)


NOTE: See also the evolving page on First Week Rescuers (in the final week of June 1941).


Foundations

Alter and Schaje Friedberg Fund

Institute for Righteous Gentiles [Lithuania]

Sugihara Foundation

 


Websites

Yad Vashem’s list of Lithuanian Righteous among the Nations to January 2012

Kovno Righteous Gentiles

Lithuanian Righeous among the Nations (Wikipedia)

Museum of Learning

 


Books and Articles

Julija Šukys, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Simate. University of Nebraska Press: 2011.

Jerusalem of Lithuania [publication of the Jewish Community of Lithuania] honors rescuers, no. 155-56, p. 5: 2010.

Hands Bringing Life and Bread, vol. IV. Compiled by D. D. Selčinskaja. Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum: Vilnius 2009.

Joseph Levinson, “The Righteous among the Nations” in his The Shoah (Holocaust) in Lithuania, pp 271-317. Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum of Lithuania: Vilnius 2006.

Michael Good, The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi who Saved Jews. Fordham University Press: 2006.

Hands Bringing Life and Bread, vol. III. Compiled by Viktorija Sakaitė; edited by Dalija Epšteinaitė. Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum: Vilnius 2005.

With a Needle in the Heart. Memories of Former Prisoners of Ghettos and Concentration camps. Center for Research in Genocide and Resistance of the Citizens of Lithuania & the Government of the Republic of Lithuania: Vilnius 2003.

Dalia Kuodyte &  Rimantas Stankevicius & Alexander Fortescue, Whoever Saves One Life… The Efforts to Save Jews in Lithuania between 1941 and 1944. Vilnius 2002.

Jonathan Goldstein, “Lithuania Honours a Holocaust Rescuer” in Polin, vol. XIV, pp 249-255, 2001.

Hands Bringing Life and Bread, vol. II. Compiled by Viktorija Sakaitė; edited by Dalija Epšteinaitė. Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum: Vilnius 1999.

Hands Bringing Life and Bread, vol. I. Compiled by Mikhail Ehrenburg and Viktorija Sakaite. Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum: Vilnius 1997.

“Saved Jews Disregarding Mortal Danger” & related chapters,  pp 23-48  in Juozas Prunskis, Lithuania’s Jews and the Holocaust. Published by Lithuanian American Council: Chicago 1979.

Sofija Binkienė, Ir be ginklo kariai (Unarmed Fighters): Vilnius 1967.


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