Irena Lusky Collection, 1930-1972
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Brief Description: This narrative is a panoramic description of the epoch. It starts with the societal analysis of Jewish life in prewar Lithonia, then the author provides a personalized existential discourse  of the wartime Lithuania, Latvia and Germany. Writing a personal memoir, Irena Lusky takes up a task of a researcher and historian. Her family history becomes a subsidiary theme, while the history of Jewish communities in the Holocaust is shown as a multifaceted phenomenon. She takes the reader insides of ghetto and concentration camp day-to-day existence. The author provides valuable historical passages with regard to the famous and infamous figures, as well as in relation to controversial individuals of the Jewish police in the ghetto and the Jewish Resistance. Irena Lusky continues her story into the postwar time. She takes the reader into the British-mandate Palestine and renders analysis of the pre-state period and of the establishment of the state of Israel, followed with the War for Independence, 1948 – 1949.
Held at:
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
100 S. The Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 323-651-3704
Fax: 323-843-9518
Email: archive [at] lamoth.org
Record Series Number: RG-01/RG-01.01
Created by: Lusky, Irena (1925 --)
Volume: 1.0 Items
Arrangement: This collection consists of one narrative, namely the historic memoir of Irena Lusky
Biographical Note for Lusky, Irena (1925 --) :

Irena Lusky donated her manuscript to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.

the Document is a typewritten manuscript on 172 pages. Pages 163-171 are missing. The given last page 172 is not a final narrative for it only commences the epilogue. Apparently, it is a lack of the final one or two pages, although the narrative can be deemed complete by the page 172. The narrative is placed in a pocket folder.

Subject Index
Abba Kovner, commander of the Jewish resistance group in Lithuania, 1941 -- 1944
Aliyah Bet, Jewish illegal immigration to Palestine, 1934 – 1948
Bet Zera' (Israel)
Bricha Movement, underground organized effort to bring Jewish survivors to Palestine, 1945 – 1948
Bydgoszcz (Poland)
Documents in English language
Duel Family, interwar Lithuania
Estonia (1940 -- 1945)
FPO (Fareinikte Partizaner Organizatsie, United Partisan Organization), a Jewish resistance
German concentration camps in Baltic countries, 1941 -- 1945
German concentration camps in Poland, 1939 -- 1945
Germany (1941 -- 1945)
Giv'atayim (Israel)
Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary organization in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1921 to 1948
IG Farben, a German chemical industry conglomerate, used slave labor, wartime
Irena Lusky, former prisoner of the ghetto and German concentration camps, survivor, memorialist
Israel (1948 --1967)
Jacob Gens, Chairman of Judenrat (Jewish Council) in Vilnius, supporter of Jewish resistance
Jewish history, modern
Kaunas (Lithuania)
Klooga (Estonia: Concentration camp)
Latvia (1939-1945)
Lithuania (1918 -- 1940)
Lithuania (1941 -- 1945)
Lublin (Poland)
Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp)
Narrative, Irena Lusky, interwar Lithuania, wartime Lithuania, Germany, postwar Palestine
Narratives in English language
Palestine, British Mandate Territory (1918--1948)
Personal memoirs and recollections, Irena Lusky
Poland (1939--1945)
Postwar memoirs of the Holocaust
Riga (Latvia)
Riga-Kaiserwald (Latvia: Concentration Camp)
Riga-Strasdenfoh (Latvia: Concentration Camp)
Rossa (Estonia)
Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
Shimon Lusky, family member related to Irena Lusky
Siberia (USSR: Region)
Soviet annexation of Lithuania, summer 1940
Tamara Duel, former prisoner of German concentration camps, survivor
The Jewish Brigade, Jewish Palestinian Infantry unit of the British Army, 1944 -- 1946
The USSR (1939 -- 1941)
The USSR (1941--1945)
Thirteen Fort, Kaunas (Kovno) Fortress, Lithuania
Toruń (Poland)
Vilna (Lithuania: Ghetto)
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Vilnius (Lithuania: Ghetto)
Wilno (Lithuania: Ghetto)
Wittenberg Affair, it reveals defiance, honor and collaboration entangled to no deliverance, Vilnius
Yitzhak Wittenberg, Jewish resistance fighter in Vilnius, 1941 -- 1943
Languages of Materials
English [eng]
German [ger]