Creators & ContributorsMorgan, Keith (author)
Sigal, Ruth Kron (contributor)
Sigal, Ruth Kron (subject)

Summary"Ruta’s Closet is the true story of a Lithuanian Jewish family’s fight to escape Hitler’s attempt to wipe out their people. Meyer and Gita Kron’s determination to survive grew stronger and they became more resourceful as family members and good friends perished at the hands of the Nazis and marauding armed collaborators. A series of narrow escapes in their hometown of Shavl (Siauliai in the Lithuanian language) and threats of betrayal by formerly friendly non-Jewish neighbours failed to extinguish the family’s spirit. In telling their story, the book offers a shocking look at the daily lives of those imprisoned in the ghetto and the dramatic events that shape their individual and collective fate." —Publication website

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• A letter from the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
• Foreword by the Right Honourable Sir Martin Gilbert
• Preface
• Significant people in Ruta's Closet

1. Barbarians at the gate
2. The enemy within
3. First blood
4. Where death stalks
5. In the ghetto
6. Putting bread on the table
7. The last pregnancy
8. Matters of life and death
9. The doctor and the Kommando
10. Messengers of fate
11. Taking of the innocents
12. And the band played on
13. A ride in a big truck
14. The little schoolhouse
15. Ruta's Closet
16. No safe hiding place
17. History repeats itself
18. The living corpse
19. A day of miracles
20. The liquidation of the ghetto
21. Liberators
22. Torment
23. Final flight
24. Epilogue
25. After the Holocaust

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references
• "special first edition, published in cooperation with the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, and the book's associated web-based youth education project" —Page 9