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Testimony of Leo May, born in Kuldiga, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, the Riga (Heereskraftfahrzeugpark), Stutthof, and Buchenwald camps

Testimony of Leo May, born in Kuldiga, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, and in the Riga (Heereskraftfahrzeugpark), Stutthof, and Buchenwald camps Life in Riga; activities of the local hospitals; German occupation, 01 July 1941; work of Prof. Mintz at the hospital until October 1941; publication of an order expelling Jewish patients from the hospitals, September 1941; yellow badge, 26 July 1941; closure of the ghetto, 25 October 1941; murder of the Jewish elderly and children, 30 November 1941; murder of Jews, 07 December 1941; establishment of the Small Ghetto, early 1942; life in the Small Ghetto; activities of the shops and bathhouse; activities of the hospital under the direction of Prof. Mintz; liquidation of the Small Ghetto; deportation of some of the inmates to the Kaiserwald camp, late October 1943; meeting Prof. Mintz at the Riga (Heereskraftfahrzeugpark) camp; obliterating signs of the murder and many mass graves, 1944; transfer of inmates from the Kaiserwald camp to the Riga (Strasdenhof) camp, August 1944; transfer to the Stutthof camp, 25 September 1944; transfer to Buchenwald.
item Id
3729015
Type of material
Memoirs
File Number
3337
Language
Russian
Record Group
O.33 - Testimonies, Diaries and Memoirs Collection
Date of Creation - earliest
1964
Date of Creation - latest
1988
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
18
Connected to Item
O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust
Form of Testimony
Written testimony
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection