So We Died

A powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto in Nazi-occupied Lithuania So We Died: A Memoir of Life and Death in the Ghetto of Šiauliai, Lithuania ( Azoy zaynen mir geshtorbn ) is a powerful eyewitness account of the Shavl ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania. Written in Yiddish by Levi Shalit and available now for the first time in English, the work fills a stark void in historical records. Shalit divided his work into four sections. In the first, he describes the German invasio