| LC control no. | no 98131966 |
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| Personal name heading | Kruk, Herman, 1897-1944 |
| Variant(s) | Kruk, Hermann, 1897-1944 קרוק, הערמאן, 1897־1944 קרוק, ה. |
| Associated country | Poland Lithuania Estonia |
| Located | Warsaw (Poland) Vil'na (Lithuania) |
| Birth date | 1897 |
| Death date | 1944-09-18 |
| Place of birth | Płock (Poland) |
| Place of death | Estonia |
| Profession or occupation | Diarists Library directors |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | Zwischen den Fronten, 1990: t.p. (Herman Kruk) Encyc. of the Holocaust, c1990 (Kruk, Herman (1897-1944), chronicler of the Vilna ghetto) Hermann Kruk (1897-1944), Bibliothekar und Chronist im Ghetto Wilna (1941-1943), 1990 Encyclopedia of Holocaust literature, 2002: page 101 (Herman Kruk, 1897-1944. Served as director of Grosser Library in Warsaw; fled to Vilna in the second week of September 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland and was forced into the Vilna ghetto where he rebuilt the library which by September 10, 1941 was lending books. Born in Plock (at the time, Russian territory). Was sent to Estonia where he was murdered on September 18, 1944. His diary (in Yiddish) describes life in the Vilna ghetto.) |
| Associated language | yid |
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