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Memoirs of Amfian Gerasimov (Righteous Among the Nations), born in 1903, regarding helping the Jews in the Riga Ghetto, and hiding the Jew Garri Niss in his apartment

Memoirs of Amfian Gerasimov (Righteous Among the Nations), born in 1903, regarding helping the Jews in the Riga Ghetto, and hiding the Jew Garri Niss in his apartment Establishment of the Riga Ghetto; deportation of the Mizrakh and Brill families to the ghetto; help from members of the Gerasimov family to prisoners in the ghetto; the sealing of the ghetto; Jews are ordered to wear a yellow badge; transfer of Jews to forced labor outside the ghetto; passing supplies and items left with neighbors to the Mizrakh and Brill families in the ghetto; loss of contact with the Jews; hiding the Jew Garri Niss in his apartment until the liberation; aliya of the Brill family to Eretz Israel after the war; aliyah to Eretz Israel. Included in the file: - article published in the "Maariv" newspaper on 24 January 1986, with information regarding Gerasimov Amfian, Righteous Among the Nations.
item Id
3728002
Type of material
Article
Memoirs
File Number
2124
Language
Hebrew
Russian
Record Group
O.33 - Testimonies, Diaries and Memoirs Collection
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
16
Connected to Item
O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust
Form of Testimony
Written testimony
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository