| The source text has two forms, one found in II Samuel 22, and the other in Psalm 18, the one prescribed for that day according to the custom of the Vilna Gaon. |
| My first teacher was my father, a good violinist and concertmaster of the Vilna Symphony Orchestra. |
| After Pesach he and his family went for a short while to Vilna. |
| The first section, Ground Zero, presents writings forged by the crucible of ghettos and concentration camps in Vilna, Lodz, and Minsk-Mazowiecki. |
| We have abandoned Vilna and Vitebsk and shall abandon Drissa. |
| Marija was an orphan, and had worked since childhood for a rich farmer of Vilna, who beat her regularly. |
