Scholar Julija Sukys attempts to piece together the life of Ona Simaite (1894-1970), a librarian who slipped into the Jewish ghetto of German-occupied Vilnius c

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2018 Book Prize from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies 2018 Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature in Nonfiction from the Koffler Centre

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