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Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march Family move to Kazlu Rhuda in 1930; her childhood in a Zionist traditional home; studies at a ‎Lithuanian school; antisemitism; joining Hashomer Hatzair; entry of the Russians in 1939; ‎nationalization of her father’s bakery; death of her mother from illness; German occupation in ‎June 1941; wearing the yellow badge; escape with her family to Kaunas; arrest by the Lithuanians ‎and deportation to the Seventh Fort; release of the women and children and...

File Number : 13652

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Batsheva (Miler) Shachar, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and Eckernfoerde

Testimony

Testimony of Batsheva (Miler) Shachar, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and Eckernfoerde Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including forced labor posing as a 14 year old; "Aktions" including the "Aktion" against children in 1943; rescue from deportation; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Stutthof camp; camp life including disease; evacuation of the camp; transfer to Eckernfoerde; liberation by the British Army. Meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; aliya...

File Number : 12484

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 1385

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 1847

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 : List of Murdered Persons, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Papos regarding the Children's Aktion in Kaunas, March 1944, parents hiding their children and returning them after the war

The efforts of parents to save their children and hand them over to locals, children resisting to return to their parents after the war, having connected with the families hiding them. The testimony was given by Hanna Zagenkahn in the Feldafing DP Camp, 12 October 1945.

File Number : 55

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pesakh Mordokhovich, born in Slobodka, Lithuania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and deportation to Stutthof, Landsberg and Kaufering camps

Testimony

Testimony of Pesakh Mordokhovich, born in Slobodka, Lithuania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and deportation to Stutthof, Landsberg and Kaufering camps His family's life in Slobodka; his father is a laborer at a sawmill; his family speaks Yiddish at home; Jewish holidays; studies in a Jewish school; Soviet occupation, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; escape to Palanga with a group of children from a summer camp; escape back to Slobodka; his family's home is included inside the boundaries of the local ghetto in August 1941; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentary papers regarding Holocaust survivors who were children in Lithuania during the Holocaust period, dated 1945-2012

Documentary papers regarding Holocaust survivors who were children in Lithuania during the Holocaust period, from the years 1945-2012 - Most of the documents were submitted to Dr. Shalom Eilati, an initiator of meetings of Lithuanian Holocaust survivors wherever they can be found. Dr. Eilati gathers information through personal appeals to the survivors and wide activity concerning survivors who are former residents of Vidukle, Klaipeda, Memel, Siauliai, Vilna, Kovno and other places in Lithuania who, during their childhood, were hidden during "Aktions" against the children and the elderly in the Kovno...

File Number : 1290

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, Memoirs, Record of Survivors, Article, List of Jewish Survivors, Survey Report, Letter, Questionnaire, List of Children

Language : Hebrew, English, Yiddish

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