Albumas su priklijuotais Hermano Kruko dienoraščio puslapiais, 1941-1943

Herman Kruk (Yiddish: הערשל קרוק‎) was a Polish-Jewish librarian and Bundist activist who kept a diary recording his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II. Kruk fled Warsaw and relocated to Vilna at the outbreak of the Invasion of Poland.While confined to the Vilna Ghetto, he organized and oversaw the creation and operation of a library in the Ghetto.He also played an active role in several of the ghetto's social welfare and cultural organizations. Kruk continued chronicling his experiences after he was transferred to the Klooga concentration camp. The last entry was made on September 17, 1944, when he buried his diaries inside the camp at KZ Lagedi in Estonia.

The three copies of the Ghetto Chronicle were hidden by Kruk in different places. One was given to a Polish priest who was believed to have been murdered by the Germans. One remained in the library and the third he buried in a metal container. In months of labor after the liberation of the liquidated ghetto by the Soviet Union, the poet Abraham Sutzkever was able to collect the individual pages from the opened container and bring them to safety in Moscow. A complete publication of all pages found in the chronicle and diary of Herman Kruk is available in English. Some of the records from outside the ghetto have been lost. Only fragments have survived. These notes were kept in the post-war Vilnius Jewish Museum from 1944 to 1949, and after its closure, they were transferred to the Central State Archive of Lithuania (LCVA FR 1390 ap. 1 b. 58-73). In 1998, the documents were returned to the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum.

From Lithuanian Central State Archives (LCVA FR 1390 ap.1 b.59)