Last Walk in Naryshkin Park
Naryshkin Park is a place where lovers once walked. On 2 October 1941, it became the site of a mass grave. Rose Zwi deftly weaves together clues from survivors’ accounts, old photographs, official documents and archival research to form a many-layered account of the proud history and tragic destruction of the Jews of Lithuania.
1997 | ISBN 9781875559725 | Paperback | 217 x 140 mm | 252 pp
Awards
1999 Shortlisted, NSW Premier's General History Award
Winner, Asia Pacific Publishers' Association Award
Reviews
‘The lightness of her touch and her transparent desire to heal rifts between people, make her a powerful advocate.’
–Miriam Cosic, Australian Review of Books
‘It is compelling reading and the imagery so vivid that one is transported...’
–Alan Torrance, Chadashot
‘Rose Zwi... is a gifted writer and Last Walk is a significant contribution to the record of the event … This contribution to the personal history of the Holocaust an invaluable. Last Walk is not a book to be enjoyed. It is only to be treasured.’
–Joe Podbray, Financial Mail, South Africa
‘It’s a moving, vital, devastating and inspiring work.’
–Gleebooks Gleaner
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Part One
1 Prologue
2 Exile to Eden
3 Waiting for the Revolution
4 Oaxaca, Mexico
5 Questions
6 Di Deutschen Kumen!
Part Two
7 Going Home
8 First Witness
9 Mierke
10 Leib—A Hero?
11 The Destruction of Zhager
12 Quests
Part Three
13 Vilna
14 Whose Jerusalem?
15 Invitation to Kaddish
16 A Minyan in Vilna
17 Lists
18 Kharaites and Khazars
19 The Road to Zhager
20 Zagare
21 Altona’s Story
22 The Heimen Shtetala
23 The Death of Leib
24 Epilogue
Bibliography