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Gram Sheina Itsikovna (1925-1941)

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SurnameGram
NameSheina
PatronymItsikovna
Birth year1925
birth_placePreiļi
Death year1941

Gram Sheina (Scheina) Itsikovna (1925, Preiļi – 1941) — Holocaust victim, diarist.

Sheina Gram completed her education at the Jewish Primary School in Preiļi. From 22 June to 8 August 1941, she kept a diary in Yiddish documenting the events of the Holocaust in Preiļi. This is the only known document written by a Jewish child in Latvia during the Second World War.

The diary was first published in The Unknown Black Book. It was discovered in late July 1944 and preserved by a neighbour, G. Ivanovskaya, who passed it on to Sheyna’s brother, Gutman Gram. He shared its contents with a group collecting evidence of Nazi crimes during the Holocaust. The diary was later kept by Gutman Gram’s wife, who had been evacuated to Bashkiria.

Literature: Голос Шейны Грам. Дневник 15-летней девочки из местечка Прейли. 22 июня – 8 августа 1941 г. Неизвестная Черная книга. Иерусалим, 1993. С. 325 – 332; Bogojavlenska S. Šeinas Gramas dienasgrāmata (Preiļi, 1941. gada jūlijs – augusts) – laikmeta vēsturiska unvispārcilvēciska liecība Latvijas vēsturnieku komisijas raksti. 2. sējums. Holokausta izpētes problēmas Latvijā: Starptautiskās konferences referāti. 2000. gada. 16. – 17. oktobri. Rīga, 2001. 225–231. lpp.; Волкович Б. О дневнике Шейны Грам Волкович Б.и др. Холокост в Латгалии. Даугавпилс, 1993. С. 65–68; Ročko J. Tas notika Preiļos. Holokausta pētnicības problēmas Latvijā. 23. sējums. Rīga, 2008. 240–256. lpp. И. Рочко