On this day in 2018, Sara Ginaite Rubinson passed away. She was a world-renowned author and academic, and a resistance fighter in her native home, Lithuania, against the Nazis during World War II. After the war, Rubinson joined her daughters in Canada and wrote several books in Lithuanian. Her most famous work translated into English was Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas 1941–1944 (2005).Rubinson was born to Yosef Ginas and Rebecca Virovitch, in Kaunas, Lithuania on March 17, 1924. Raised in a successful Jewish family, Rubinson was on the verge of graduating from high school when, in 1941, her life was interrupted by the Nazi invasion of Lithuania. Three of her uncles were killed in the Kaunas Pogrom that year, and she, along with the rest of her family, was placed in the Kovno Ghetto. There, Rubinson joined the Anti-Fascist Fighting Organization, a resistance of fighters against the Nazis. After marrying Misha Rubinson, the two of them escaped together in the winter of 1943. Rubinson then created a Jewish Partisan unit called, “Death to the Occupiers”. She would often venture back to the ghettos to rescue people and help bring them to safety. Both she and her husband participated in the liberation of the Kaunas and the Vilnius ghettos, although the Nazis had already wiped out most of the region’s Jewish population. Among the rest of her family, only her sister and brother-in-law survived. Rubinson eventually became a professor of political economics at Vilnius University in Lithuania. After her husband died in 1977, she emigrated to Canada where her two daughters, Anya and Tanya, were already living. Rubinson became an adjunct professor at York University and was frequently invited to lecture throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, and Israel. She gave a lecture in 2013, in Toronto, entitled “History and Personal Memory: the Beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania.” That was when her best-selling book, Resistance and Survival: The Jewish Community in Kaunas, 1941–1944 was published in English. On April 2, 2018, the 17th of the Jewish month of Nissan, Rubinson died in her home at the age of 94.