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Letter of testimony of Yuliya Pilvinskaya regarding the experiences of her husband's family in Kaunas and Perloja, 1941-1944

Letter of testimony of Yuliya Pilvinskaya regarding the experiences of her husband's family in Kaunas and Perloja, 1941-1944 Air-raids on Kaunas, 22 June 1941; escape of Red Army forces from Kaunas during the early days of the war; shooting by local residents at the escaping soldiers; murder of the members of the Pilvinski family in Perloja, 1941; murder of a brother [?] of Pilvinski in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, 1941; pogrom in the Viliampol neighborhood in Kaunas; murder of the neighborhood rabbi; murder of Jewish men in the bus park in Kaunas; murder of women in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas; humiliating orders...

File Number : 8385

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

זיכרונותיו של Z. Grinberg מ- Kovno על קורותיו בגטו Kovno ובמחנה Kaufering בשנים 1941- 1945

File Number : 1122

Type of Material : Memoirs, Speech

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 50

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Hirsh Neiburger, who worked in the Housing Office in the Kaunas ghetto, regarding his fate among the Jews of the ghetto

- His father, Yosef Neiburger, was a public figure in Kaunas; pogroms by Lithuanians in Kaunas after the entry of the Germans; his work in the Housing Office in Slobodka during the planning of the ghetto in Slobodka, June 1941, and his entry as part of his work to many homes where traces of murders committed by the "Shaulists" (Lithuanians) were evident; Aktionen; kidnapping of Jews from their homes and murders at the seventh Fort and the ninth Fort, July 1941; order to wear the yellow badge and other anti-Jewish decrees, July 1941; order for the Jews of Kaunas to move to the ghetto in Slobodka; representatives...

File Number : 1286

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Yiddish

עדותו של Yakov Rabinovitch על הסתתרותו, עם אשתו Devorah וביתם Tanya, במחבואים שונים ביולי 1944 טרם שחרור גטו Kaunas

File Number : 12674

Type of Material : תמליל, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Transcription of interview with Iudit Dita Iofis about her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and a death march

Transcription of interview with Iudit Dita Iofis about her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas ghetto, the Stutthof camp, and a death march - transcription of interview with Iudit Dita Iofis, translated into Hebrew from Russian: Childhood in Kaunas (parents: Jechiel and Bryanna Iofis, sister: Lyuba); life under Soviet rule from 1940 on; sister, Lyuba, studies in Wilno; Kaunas bombarded upon eruption of war on June 22, 1941; family attempts to escape and returns to Kaunas; Jews murdered and oppressed by Lithuanians; sister, Lyuba, arrive from Wilno; internment in the Kaunas ghetto from April 1941 on; forced...

File Number : 12554

Type of Material : Interview(s), תמליל

הצהרתו של Samuel Shmidt על קורותיו בגטו Kaunas, במחנה Stutthof ובמחנות עבודה בגרמניה בתקופת השואה וסיפור על הגעת ההצהרה לידי בנו

File Number : 12490

Type of Material : Declaration, סיפור

Language : English

Memoirs of Meilach Lubocki regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the Port Kunda, Stutthof and Magdeburg camps during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Meilach Lubocki regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the Port Kunda, Stutthof and Magdeburg camps during the Holocaust - memoirs of Meilach Lubocki, written in Landsberg IDP camp in September 1945. The memoirs were translated from Yiddish to English by his brother Charles Lubocki (formerly Chaim Lubocki): Murder of Jews in Kaunas by the Lithuanians after the outbreak of the war; the German occupation of Kaunas on 24 June 1941; mass murders by Lithuanians and Germans; deportation of Kaunas Jews to the ghetto in August 1941; transfer to forced labor; "Aktions" in the...

File Number : 11910

Type of Material : Memoirs

עדות של גוטמן נחמה, ילידת Niemenczyn פולין 1930, על רצח המוני של האוכלוסייה היהודית ביער, בריחה מבור הריגה, מסתור אצל תושבת מקומית, גירוש לגטו Kovno ולמחנות Stutthof ו-Leipzig בתקופת המלחמה

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters, telegrams, and additional documentation pertaining to the Kapulski family from Kaunas and their experiences during the Holocaust and afterward

Letters, telegrams, and additional documentation pertaining to the Kapulski family from Kaunas and their experiences during the Holocaust and afterward - Telegram sent from Zurich to the Kapulski family in Tel Aviv containing information regarding family members in Europe, 17 July 1945; - Letters and telegrams sent from the Modena Displaced Persons camp by Yitzchak Kapulski to family members in Tel Aviv, October-November 1945. The letter dated 17 October 1945 appears in translation to Hebrew only; - Identity cards issued for the purpose of making aliya to Eretz Israel; --for Chaja Kapulska just before...

File Number : 4903

Type of Material : Letter, Personal Documents, Telegram, Memoirs

Language : Italian, Hebrew, English, Yiddish

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