Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews by Bea Lurie and Steven Leonard Jacobs

Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews by Bea Lurie and Steven Leonard Jacobs

As time passes, the number of new Holocaust memoirs has inevitably dwindled. The latest is cowritten by the daughter of a survivor and a historian who provides context. Sol Lurie was 11 when the Nazis seized Lithuania and his middle-class childhood idyll was shattered. Ninety-five percent of Lithuania’s Jews were killed, many by Lithuanians, not Germans. “Sol knew early on that there were good Germans,” some of whom risked their lives, writes Bea Lurie, recalling her father’ memories.

Life became harder in the ghetto established by the Nazis and worse still when the survivors were brought to concentration camps where death was the only sure e