Joint testimony of Raya (Kurliandchik) Milshtein Shoshan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1918, and Dvora (Kurliandchik) Kantor, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1928, regarding their experiences in the Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto, Shanc, Stutthof, Trunz and other places
Joint testimony of Raya (Kurliandchik) Milshtein Shoshan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1918, and Dvora (Kurliandchik) Kantor, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1928, regarding their experiences in the Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto, Shanc, Stutthof, Trunz and other places
Joint testimony of Raya (Kurliandchik) Milshtein Shoshan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1918, and Dvora (Kurliandchik) Kantor, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1928, regarding their experiences in the Kaunas (Kovno) Ghetto, Shanc, Stutthof, Trunz and other places
Life before the war.
Deportation of Jews and their murder in the Seventh Fort by the Lithuanians, July 1941; murder of Jewish intelligentsia, August 1941; deportation of the family to the Kaunas Ghetto, 28 August 1941; ghetto life; deportation of Jews by the Germans, 28 October 1941; deportation to Shanc, December 1943; camp life including murder of children, 1944; activities of Raya as a courier between the Jewish underground in the camp and the underground leadership in the Kaunas Ghetto; liquidation of the camp; transfer by train to Stutthof, July 1944; escape of Jews from the train; camp life including murder of mothers and children, 1944; suicide of a female pediatrician; transfer to Trunz, August 1944; camp life; transfer to Mersin; camp life; transfer to Lubicz; camp life including a secret party planned by Esther Luria, the artist; presentation of drawings and sculpture by the artist at the party; deportation, 19 January 1945; liberation by the Red Army.
Move to Poland using a false identity, December 1945; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.
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Raya
Dvora
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Milshtein
Shoshan
Kantor
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Kurliandchik
Kurliandchik
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1918
1928
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Kaunas, Lithuania
Kaunas, Lithuania
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3127
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Hebrew
Yiddish
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives