Avraham Tory

Avraham Tory (1909–2002) was a Jewish Lithuanian Holocaust survivor, diarist, and lawyer.

Tory kept a diary and archive detailing events in Lithuania's Kovno Ghetto from June 1941 to January 1944. As secretary of the Ghetto's Jewish Council of Elders, Tory had access to privileged information and documents. His detailed diary and secret archive were used as evidence in war crimes trials. He also served as a trial witness.

Tory's diary was published in Hebrew in 1988 and English in 1990. From 1998 to 2000, It served as the centerpiece for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's two year exhibition, ''Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary''. His original diary and archive are in the collection of Yad Vashem. Provided by Wikipedia