Resistance in the Kovno ghetto!

The Gelpernus Diary Resistance in the Kovno Ghetto Chaim Yelin & Dimitri-Ghelpernus  H.E.A.R.T Exclusive!   Writer Chaim Yelin, the organizer and leader of the ghetto partisan movement, dreamed of writing a book about the resistance, underground and Kovno ghetto partisans. The proof of that is in the material which he managed to have written during the war.   However, only some of that material has survived. Having devoted all his being to the underground movement, Chaim Yelin perished in the fight with the brown plague without making public the Resistance documents, which were at that time written in blood of Kovno ghetto fighters. These lines were written by his brother and his closest friend, who, from the very first days of Kovno ghetto,fought hand in hand with him. The authors of the book aimed to describe the events with utmost precision. They see it as their duty both to the memory of those who were killed, who consciously gave their lives in the fight against the enemy and those who continue their fight for the reconstruction and growth of the new Soviet Russia. May these lines serve as a historical document to the suffering of the Jewish people in the common fight of all Soviet peoples against the enemy of all humanity – German fascists. – Dimitri-Ghelpernus  Author Part 1    “In the Ghetto Grip” I. AMONG THE RUINS   Soviet soldiers view the ruins of the Kovno Ghetto When at the beginning of August 1944 Kovno was liberated from the fascist invaders, partisan groups entered the city together with Soviet Army detachments. Among them was the group “Pirmin” (“Forward”) and parts of the groups “Mirtis Ocupantams” (“Death to the Invaders”), “Vladas Baronas”, “Laisvoi Lietuva” (“Free Lithuania”) and others. Many Jews, former members of Kovno underground anti-fascist ghetto organisation fought among them. Having returned to their home town, without washing off road dust, with their sub-machine guns over their shoulders, Kovno ghetto partisans crossed the river Neris (Villia) and entered Kovno suburb of Villiampole (Village). The partisans were going there with a heavy heart, where their fathers and sons, husbands and wives, friends and relatives suffered in the grips of the ghetto – all those who failed to make their escape via barbed wire fence and police cordons of the Jewish prison. Read all eight chapters here: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/gelpernusdiary.html The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team www.HolocaustresearchProject.org   Copyright Carmelo Lisciotto H.E.A.R.T 2010