Notes from the Valley of Slaughter: A Memoir from the Ghetto of Siauliai, Lithuania

Notes from the Valley of Slaughter is an eyewitness journal and diary of the Holocaust, written in the ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania, by Dr. Aharon Pick (1872–1944). A physician, scholar, and community leader, Pick was a keen observer of the hardships of ghetto life, and his journal represents a detailed account of the tragic events he witnessed as well as a sensitive, almost poetic personal testament.

Pick's journal covers the tumultuous late 1930s, the 1940–41 Soviet occupation of Lithuani...