Avrom Sutzkever on Poetry and Partisan Life

In this short film Avrom Sutzkever recalls his experience in the Vilna Ghetto and as a Jewish partisan and discusses the origins of some of his poems. Recorded May 24th, 1959, during a public program at the Jewish Public Library of Montreal.   

From the Yiddish Book Center's Frances Brandt Online Yiddish Audio Library. 

Photograph courtesy of the Jewish Public Library of Montreal.