Lithuania: New & Selected Poems by Myra Sklarew

The poem, Lithuania, is based upon the firsthand accounts of elderly Lithuanians and surviving Lithuanian Jews, on letters written from Lithuania to my family on the eve of World War II, on diaries secretly kept, on conversations with a family member who survived the Kovno Ghetto and Stutthof concentration camp, and on evidence still visible. It is based on the felt absense of Jews in a place that had once been the center of world Jewry.