Lessons in Jewish Resilience from Zelig Kalmanovitch’s Ghetto Diary

One way to ensure that Holocaust education, at least within the Jewish community, becomes more effective is to focus on a different set of figures from those who most often get attention. Figures like the philologist Zelig Kalmanovitch, who participated actively in various forms of Jewish nationalism before settling on Zionism and returning, near the end of his life, to religion. Daniela Ozacky Stern describes his record of life in Vilna under Nazi occupation.