Yitskhok Rudashevski

Icchokas "Yitskhok" Rudashevski ( – ) was a Jewish boy who lived in the Wilna Ghetto in Lithuania from 1941 to 1943. He wrote a diary in the ghetto from June 1941 to April 1943. This was during the time the Germans invaded the Soviet Union.  He was killed by gunfire in the Ponary massacres while trying to hide during the last time the ghetto was being emptied of people during September and October 1943. His cousin Sore Voloshin, found the diary  in 1944 when returned to Wilna after fighting in the war. The diary was first published in 1973 by the Ghetto Fighters' House publisher in Israel.

Category:1927 births
Category:1943 deaths
Category:Diarists
Category:Jewish writers
Category:Lithuanian Jews
Category:Holocaust victims