Testimony of Avraham Bloch regarding Nazi crimes in Riga, summer 1941, the Aktionen in the Riga Ghetto, 1942–1943, and his experiences aboard a ship en route to the Stutthof camp, September 1944

Letter, dated 31 October 1946: Family members who perished and their dates of death; large Aktion in the Riga Ghetto, 31 October 1942 (mass murder of Jews unfit for work outside the ghetto, including his father); murder of Jewish policemen accused of aiding escapes from the ghetto; hiding children of Lithuanian Jews in the area of the ghetto inhabited by German Jews; "Kol Nidrei": Transport by ship to Stutthof, September 1944; conditions on the ship (overcrowding, hunger, poor sanitary conditions, illness, etc.); "Kol Nidrei" prayer by the inmates on the ship; "On the way from Riga to Stutthof": Continuation of the voyage description; disembarkation from the ship, 28 September 1944; transfer by boats to Stutthof; entry into Stutthof, 01 October 1944; Testimony about Nazi crimes in Riga at the beginning of the war: Battles, late June 1941 (probably); the Jewish population hides in cellars; occupation of the city; murder of Jews, 01 July 1941; burning of a synagogue with 300 Jewish refugees from Lithuania hiding in its basement, 03 July 1941; burning of holy books, 11 July 1941; burning of other synagogues in the city; burning of Jewish cemeteries (possibly exhumation of graves and burning of corpses); persecution, abuse of Jews; drafting of Jews for forced labor; deportation of a group of Jewish girls to Olaine, their torture and murder; suicides of Jews. Also in the file: envelopes of letters sent to Yad Vashem addressed to Dr. Kermish.