Title Epistolophilia : writing the life of Ona Šimaitė / Julija Šukys

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 217 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) Notes Print version record Subject Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970. Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 -- Correspondence Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 -- Diaries SUBJECT Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 -- Diaries Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 -- Correspondence Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 Šimaitė, Ona, 1894-1970 fast Subject Biography -- Authorship Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography Holocaust survivors -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Lithuania -- Vilnius Librarians -- Lithuania -- Vilnius -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Holocaust. Biography -- Authorship Holocaust survivors Librarians Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust SUBJECT Vilnius (Lithuania) -- Biography Subject Lithuania -- Vilnius Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Diaries Personal correspondence Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780803240308 0803240309

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