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Diary written by Paulina Stein, regarding her experiences in Vilna following the German occupation, including in the Vilna Ghetto, her escape to Bialystok, and in the Bialystok Ghetto from 22/06/1941 until November 1943, and an excerpt of the testimony of Marta Klein, regarding her escape from deportation in the Bialystok Ghetto in September 1943 Personal experiences of the witness and her family, and the daily Vilna Ghetto and Bialystok Ghetto life, including the institutions, organizations, people and events: - Heavy air-raids on Vilna on 22/06/1941; German occupation of the city of Vilna, including the...

File Number : 5932

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 2221

Language : Yiddish / Latin Characters

To be translated

File Number : 1119

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 2101

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

קנת

File Number : 12587

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

תרגום של ספר על ד''ר רוזה שבד-גברונסקה, מנהלת בית ילדים בגטו Wilno

Hebrew translation of book about Dr. Roza Shabad-Gawronska, director of a children's home in the Wilno ghetto - "The Heavens Wept," written by Mildred Tenney Handy and translated by Hadas Yoshua Miron, tells the experiences of Dr. Roza Shabad-Gawronska, born in Wilno in 1882, before and during the Holocaust: Childhood in Wilno; medical studies in Germany; working as a pediatrician; lives and works in Wilno from 1921 on; persecution of Jews of Wilno after German–Soviet war breaks out; witness sent to the Wilno ghetto in September 1941; medical activity in the ghetto; establishes children's home in the ghetto...

File Number : 905

Type of Material : Biography

Poems by Esther (Dykman) Gastwirth about the Wilno ghetto, the Riga-Kaiserwald camp, the Gdańsk area, the murder of relatives in Ponary and in the Majdanek camp, and memoir about Dina Kopelman

Poems by Esther (Dykman) Gastwirth about the Wilno ghetto, the Riga-Kaiserwald camp, the Gdańsk area, the murder of relatives in Ponary and in the Majdanek camp, and memoir about Dina Kopelman - Poems written by Esther (Dykman) Gastwirth, born in Wilno, Poland, in Brooklyn and New York in 1980, about the Holocaust generally and, particularly, the death of her mother before the war, the murder of her father in Ponary in 1941; Aktionen in the Wilno ghetto; deportation of grandmother, Lea Bernstein, from the Wilno ghetto; forced labor outside the ghetto; deportation of her sister, Cyla Dykman, and her...

File Number : 562

Type of Material : Poems/songs, Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs, in poem form, of Esther Dykman Gastwirth, born in Vilna, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Fordon camps, and the fate of her family members in the Holocaust

Memoirs, in poem form, of Esther Dykman Gastwirth, born in Vilna, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Fordon camps, and the fate of her family members in the Holocaust Aktion in Vilna (before the establishment of the ghetto); the fate of her grandmother Lea Bernstein, who was deported from the Vilna ghetto and perished (possibly in Ponar); forced labor in laundry; forced labor in the garden of a Catholic monastery; rape of nuns by German officers; return to the ghetto of a woman who survived in Ponar, and her information regarding the mass murder of Jews; The experiences of...

File Number : 10869

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poems/songs

Language : English

Testimony of Norman Nechemia Kaplan, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1937, regarding escape to Vilna, life in the Vilna Ghetto, and living under a false identity in Konstatinovo

Testimony

Family background; middleclass assimilated family; outbreak of war; escape to Vilna; establishment of Vilna Ghetto; father obtains false documents stating that the family is Karaite; evades “Aktions” thanks to his false identity; escape to Konstatinovo, Belarus; receiving protection from the local priest; living under false Karaite identity until the end of the war; liberation and return to Vilna; realization that his family was murdered; emigration to Berlin,1946; life in Berlin in a community of survivors; studies in Berlin; aliya to Israel, 1952; absorption in Israel.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zipora Feige Shwartz Szeszkin Shapira, born in Vilna, Poland in 1925, regarding the persecution of her family in Poland, and her experiences in Latvia and Germany

Testimony of Zipora Feige Shwartz Szeszkin Shapira, born in Vilna, Poland in 1925, regarding the persecution of her family in Poland, and her experiences in Latvia and Germany Her childhood in Vilna, Poland; entry of the Red Army in 1939; German occupation in 1941; murder of Jews by Latvians and Germans; displays of antisemitism; wearing a yellow badge; deportation to the small Vilna Ghetto in July 1941; transfer of her family - the parents and four children to the large Vilna Ghetto after a short while; her family hides in an apartment during the "Aktions" in the ghetto; forced labor; hunger; cold;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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