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Testimony of Gershon Gregori Ritvas, born in Saratov, (Russia) Soviet Union, 1916, regarding his experiences in Kaisiadorys, Orsha, using a false identity in the German Army in France, and in the French underground in Le Puy En Velay and other places

Testimony of Gershon Gregori Ritvas, born in Saratov, (Russia) Soviet Union, 1916, regarding his experiences in Kaisiadorys, Orsha, using a false identity in the German Army in France, and in the French underground in Le Puy En Velay and other places Life in Kaisiadorys before the war. Murder of the Jews; Orsha camp life including the murder of inmates; escape; capture and interrogation by the Gestapo; draft into a Tatar unit in the German Army while using a false ident...
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3556478
details.fullDetails.firstName
Gershon
Gregori
Grigori
details.fullDetails.lastName
Ritvas
details.fullDetails.dob
1916
details.fullDetails.pob
Saratov, Russia (USSR)
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Memoirs
Testimony
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3311
details.fullDetails.language
Yiddish
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
details.fullDetails.earliestDate
1948
details.fullDetails.latestDate
1968
details.fullDetails.submitter
RITVAS, GERSHON GREGORI
details.fullDetails.original
YES
details.fullDetails.numOfPages
73
details.fullDetails.signature
ר-2913/178
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Written testimony
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection