Herman Kruk (1897-1944) was a journalist and an author of memoirs from the Vilnius ghetto. He came from Płock. In 1920, he joined the Bund. He was active in Jewish labor unions. From 1930, he served as the director of the Central Judaic Library in Warsaw. Following the German invasion of Poland he escaped to Vilnius, which at that time was annexed by Lithuania. In the fall 1941, he was locked in the Vilnius ghetto. There he worked in a library. After the dissolution of the ghetto in September 1943, he was deported to a concentration camp located in Klooga in Estonia. He died there in January 1944. His memoirs appeared for the first time in 1961.

• Kruk, Herman. The Last Days of Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and Camps, 1939-1944. Edited by Benjamin Harshav. Yale University Press, 2002.