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Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Saker) Kusznir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strassenhof and Stutthof Life before the war; attends a high school. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; labor for an estate owner in exchange for food; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; disappearance of her parents after a selection; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches and in a carpet factory; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging...

File Number : 12447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaja (Ajzenman) Ber, born in Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Chaja (Ajzenman) Ber, born in Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Stutthof Life before the war; marriage and starts a family. German occupation; deportation to Lodz; life in the Lodz Ghetto including the death of her son; deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; transfer to Stutthof; evacuation by ship via the Baltic Sea, April 1945; shelling on the ship; witness is wounded; liberation by the British Army. Convalescence in a Swedish hospital; return to Lodz, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1957,

File Number : 2043

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (RGVA)

Documentation from Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi, RGVA), 1939-1944 years. Archive was established in 1920 as the Archive of the Red Army (from 1933 Central Archive of the Red Army, from 1941 Central State Archive of the Red Army, and from 1958 Central State Archive of the Soviet Army).In 1946 Institution had been supplied with separate subarchive, so called 'Separate Archive' that included documents collected by the Soviet Army during World War II in the other states and transferred here in 1946. In 1992, Special was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical and Documentary...

Type of Material : List of Deportees, List of Detainees, Instruction, Card File, Album, Names, List of Names, List of Deportation From France, Photograph, List of Perpetrators, List of Inmates, List, List of Deportation From Berlin, List of Collaborators, Official Documentation, List of Camp Inmates

Language : German

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian

To be translated

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hungarian