Table of Contents

1. Prologue

TIMELINE

ARTIFACTS

MORAL CHOICES

ANIMATION

Finding the diary

2. Introduction

TIMELINE

ARTIFACTS

MORAL CHOICES

PART I

My city

CONTEXT BOXES

Vilnius over time
Jewish religious customs
YIVO in Vilna

PART II

School

PART III

Politics and my father’s work

CONTEXT BOXES

Polish political parties before World War II
Pogroms

PART IV

What does the future have in store?

3. The World

TIMELINE

ARTIFACTS

MORAL CHOICES

WORLD CONTEXT

Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
Dominican Republic
France
Germany
Mexico
Palestine
Poland
South Africa
Soviet Union
United States

4. The War Begins

TIMELINE

ARTIFACTS

MORAL CHOICES

PART I

The Outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occupation (Sept. 1939 – June 1941)

CONTEXT BOXES

German-Soviet (Ribbentrop-Molotov) Pact
Lithuania: caught between two powers
Lithuanian antisemitism
Jews, Lithuanians, and Communism

PART II

German invasion (June 1941 – Sept. 1941)

CONTEXT BOXES

Lebensraum, “Manifest Destiny”, Nuremberg and Jim Crow laws
The Lithuanian Uprising
The Judenrat

PART III

Into the Ghetto (September 1941- December 1941)

CONTEXT BOXES

The Vilna Ghetto
Ghetto workers
The “Aktions”
The children

5. Life in the Ghetto

TIMELINE

ARTIFACTS

MORAL CHOICES

PART I

Environment
GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
The Ghetto Atmosphere

PART II

Culture and Relationships

COLLAGES

Schools
Groups and Mentorship
Youth Club
Ghetto Records
Ghetto Library
Exhibitions

PART III

Moral and ethical dilemmas

ANIMATIONS

The Jewish Police
The Butcher

PART IV

I, Yitskhok

VIDEOS

The Speech
The Birthday
The School Choice
The Activities

6. The War Ends

TIMELINE

ARTIFACTS

MORAL CHOICES

CONTEXT BOXES

The Battle of Stalingrad and liquidation of the ghettos
The “Final Solution”
Lithuania after World War II

7. Epilogue

TIMELINE

ARTIFACTS

MORAL CHOICES

DIARY’S PATH

Teaching Resources

TEACHER GUIDE

YITSKHOK RUDASHEVSKI’S DIARY

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