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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

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

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 : תמליל, Interview(s)

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