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A hidden Holocaust story from Lithuania's forests is revealed in one survivor's diary

Berl Kagan and his wife fled the Kovno Ghetto in 1943 and found refuge in a Lithuanian peasant's house. But, as he details in 'A Jew in the Woods,' even the righteous among the nations could be violent drunkards

A hidden Holocaust story from Lithuania's forests is revealed in one survivor's diary

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