Yitskhok Rudashevski (10 December 1927, Vilnius – 1 October 1943) was a young Jewish teenager who lived in the Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania during the 1940s. He wrote a diary from June 1941 to April 1943 which detailed his life and struggles living in the ghetto. He was shot to death in the Ponary massacre during the liquidation of September–October 1943. His diary was discovered by his cousin Sore Voloshin, in 1944. His cousin Voloshin fought the German army and the Soviet Union, later returning to the hideout, and found Yitskhok's diary. The diary was published in 1973 by the Ghetto Fighters' House publisher in Israel. References Lithuanian Jews who died in the Holocaust Vilna Ghetto inmates Victims of the Ponary massacre Holocaust diarists Jewish writers Jewish children who died in the Holocaust Lithuanian people executed by Nazi Germany Executed Lithuanian people People executed by Germany by firearm 1927 births 1943 deaths