On the Material Lives of Jewish Partisans in German-occupied Lithuania (1941-44)
A free Zoom talk on Thursday, January 5, 2023 1:00pm ET by Justina Smalkyté. Registration is necessary, at: https://secure2.convio.net/yivo/site/Ticketing?view=Tickets&id=103451 YIVO Institute: https://www.yivo.org/Boots-Arms-and-Spoons In her memoir “A Partisan in Vilna” (2010), Rachel Margolis, a Jewish partisan from Lithuania, recalls how a pair of warn-out but comfortable boots “saved” her during long marches in the forest. Partisans like Margolis often left memoirs, tes