Meyer and Gita Kron's determination to survive grew as family and friends perished at the hands of the Nazis and marauding Lithuanian fascist collaborators. After each terrible personal tragedy the Krons became more inventive and daring in their quest to stay alive. This remarkable story takes place in a country that even today wrestles with its collective conscience. At the beginning of the war there were 200,000 Jews but by 1945 fewer than 2,000 remained. Tens of thousands were shipped to death camps while another 130,000 were shot by squads, made up almost exclusively of the victims' own next door neighbours. However, there were a brave few who were neither cowards nor collaborators. It's their sacrificial selflessness that make it possible today to share this moving account of the triumph of good over the jackbooted evil that rampaged through the Baltic lands.
- ISBN10 1906509328
- ISBN13 9781906509323
- Publish Date 28 May 2013 (first published 23 May 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Unicorn Publishing Group
- Format eBook
- Pages 333
- Language English