Newspaper cover. Black ink on white paper, in Polish. Title is across the page, with text in two columns below. Handwritten note in Yiddish on the lower left side.

Newspaper spread, black ink on white paper. In Polish. Each side has text over two columns, with the title across the page on the right side.

Newspaper spread, black ink on white paper. In Polish. Each side has text over two columns. The tile runs across the middle of the spread, and says

Newspaper spread, black ink on white paper. In Polish. Each side has text over two columns. The bottom of the right page has text on a single column.

“Za wolność” (“For freedom”)

Vilnius, Lithuania, 1944. Newspaper

“Za wolność” (“For freedom”) was a partisan newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party in Lithuania and Poland, published in Polish. Issue no. 10, dated May 15th, 1944, was written by the Vilna partisan Rindzinski in the Rudnicki Forest, and printed there by the partisan Yitzhok Kovalski. It includes an article about Ponar and the front page presents an informative handwritten Yiddish note from Avrom Sutzkever.

Digitization of this artifact has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.