Eliezer Yerushalmi papers
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Eliezer Yerushalmi papers
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Collection consists of several manuscript and typescript drafts of writings by Yerushalmi describing events in the Šiauliai (Shavli) ghetto during the German occupation as well as other topics. Includes a manuscript text in a notebook, titled"Di geshikte fun Shavler geto un fun zefon Lita bekitzur" manuscript drafts of several plays, including"Profesor Shuster" and a draft of a novel,"Man iz im mekane di dira, a novele fun plitim in Italye" which is based on the lives of Jewish refugees in post-war Italy.
Eliezer Yerushalmi was a teacher and a member of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Šiauliai (Shavli, in Yiddish) ghetto, in Lithuania. His diary account of life in the ghetto was published in 1950.