Maria Rolinikaite died

Today, April 7, the writer Maria Rolinikaite died in St. Petersburg at the age of 88, the author of the book “I must tell” - the Diary of the Prisoner of the Vilnius ghetto.

It is reported by Radio Liberty .

Maria (Masha) R buthernika was born in 1927 in Klaipeda, in 1941-1943 she was in the Vilnius ghetto, where her mother, brother and sister were killed, then kept in the concentration camps of Strazdenhof and Stotthof, participated in the anti -fascist underground.

After the war, she lived in Vilnius, in 1955 she graduated from the correspondence department of the Literary Institute. Gorky.

In 1963, the book of Rolikeyte “I must tell” in Lithuanian. It was a diary that she kept in Yiddish from 1941 to 1945. The author’s translation into Russian was first published in the journal "Star" in 1965. To date, the book has been translated into 18 languages.

Since the mid-1960s, Rolinikaite lived and worked in Leningrad, for many years she was the only Leningrad writer who wrote about the Holocaust and heroism of the Jewish people during the Second World War.