In memoriam Irena Veisaitė: 'I never doubted that I was Jewish'
In memoriam Irena Veisaitė: ‘I never doubted that I was Jewish’ 176 Irena Veisaitė / LRT Last Friday, Irena Veisaitė, a Jewish-Lithuanian literary scholar and Holocaust survivor, passed away at the age of 92. She had Covid-19. LRT.lt presents excerpts from interviews with Veisaitė collected in the book by Aurimas Švedas, Life Should Be Transparent. Born in Kaunas in 1928, Veisaitė was a known intellectual, theatre scholar, and human rights activist. Veisaitė's mother died in the Kaunas Ghetto during World War Two. She herself was later sheltered by a non-Jewish family. After the wa...
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