Michael Diment
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- 1915
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- Ukraine
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- Svynuikhy, Ukraine
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- Svynuikhy, Ukraine
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- Michael Diment was born to a Jewish family in the small Ukrainian village of Svynyuikhy. He was a young man in June 1941 when Nazi Germany invaded in World War II. He and the other area Jews were forced into the Lukacze Ghetto. Some people, including Diment, escaped the ghetto before the entire Jewish population was massacred in 1942, but they were ruthlessly hunted and nearly none of them survived until the end of the war. Diment was one of the few, perhaps the only one who did, living few days here in the forest, a few days there with a Ukrainian peasant, a few weeks with another. When he was lucky, he could stay hidden for months at a time.
The Lone Survivor: A Diary of the Lukacze Ghetto and Svyniukhy, Ukraine (1991) is a memoir put together from notes the author made and scraps he collected during the war, detailing daily life, the slaughter of the ghetto inhabitants, and his life on the run until for two years. The book was edited and translated by his son Shmuel (Diment) Yahalom.
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Diment would not have survived without the help of the Ukrainian peasants in the area, and I got the impression that many more would have helped him if they hadn't been too frightened. The peasants who assisted him and other Jews do, at any rate, seem to have outnumbered those who actively persecuted them. I find this interesting because Ukrainians tend to be characterized as the worst of all the nationalities in Holocaust literature. It is true however that many of the atrocities were committed by the Ukrainian militia rather than the Germans.
I think this memoir would mainly be of interest to people researching the Holocaust in rural Ukraine. It's not especially well-written, but there are very few Holocaust books out of Ukraine and this is as good as any.… (mehr)