Yitskhok Rudashevski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yitskhok Rudashevski

Lithuanian Jewish diarist

Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1927

Place of Birth: Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1943

Profession: writer

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Yitskhok Rudashevski (10 December 1927, Vilnius – 1 October 1943) was a young Jewish teenager who lived in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania during the 1940s.
He wrote a diary from June 1941 to April 1943 which detailed his life and struggles living in the ghetto.
He was shot to death in the Ponary massacre during the liquidation of September–October 1943.
His diary was discovered by his cousin Sore Voloshin, in 1944.
His cousin Voloshin fought the German army and the Soviet Union, later returning to the hideout, and found Yitskhok's diary.
The diary was published in 1973 by the Ghetto Fighters' House publisher in Israel.