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P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954

P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954 Shmaryahu Kaczerginski was born in Vilna in 1908. From a very young age, he started to write and publish poetry and stories. Kaczerginski was one of the founders and activists in "Young Vilna", a group of young Yiddish poets in Vilna, and he was also active in the Communist movement. Even when he was a young man, some of his poems were adopted by the Jews of Vilna and Poland, and these poems became the folk songs sung by many of the Jews. In 1942, after about a year of hiding from the Germans, Kaczerginski returned to...

Type of Material : Diary, Testimony, Letter, Musical Notes, Poems/songs, Research Article, Play(s), Script(s)

Language : Russian, Yiddish

Overview of the activities of the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) on the Aryan side of Warsaw

Overview of the activities of the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee) on the Aryan side of Warsaw Contacts and cooperation of the members of the underground in the ghetto with underground organizations on the Aryan side; establishment of Zegota (the Council for Aid to Jews) and the Zydowski Komitet Narodowy (ZKN-National Jewish Committee); activities of Dr. A. Berman, the ZKN representative and member of Zegota on the Aryan side; support of the ZKN for the Resistance fighters in the ghetto; provision of weapons to the fighters; rescue of people from the ghetto after the defeat of the...

File Number : 194

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : Polish

Thesis on the subject of schools and Jewish education in Lodz, 1939-1945, submitted by Helena Smolenska in order to receive the Master's degree

Thesis on the subject of schools and Jewish education in Lodz, 1939-1945, submitted by Helena Smolenska in order to receive the Master's degree The subjects selected for the paper: The relationship between the German authorities and the Jewish schools; transfer of the Jewish schools to the supervision of the Judenrat; school books and Jewish education in the ghetto; holidays for children; high schools and vocational schools; the Judenrat Educational Department; education in the underground; vocational training courses in the ghetto. Many sources are attached to the thesis, among them: Correspondence...

File Number : 243

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Zvi Heinz Abrahamsohn Aviram, born in Berlin, Germany in 1927, regarding his experiences in Berlin and in the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Heinz Abrahamsohn Aviram, born in Berlin, Germany in 1927, regarding his experiences in Berlin and in the underground His childhood in Berlin; Nazi rise to power in 1933; anti-Jewish legislation; displays of antisemitism in school; Nazi propaganda; his father's collapse; deportation of Jews who lack citizenship, in 1938; Kristallnacht; expulsion from the German school; transfer to a Jewish school; Aryanization; confiscation of property; ban on Jews' entrance into public places; food coupons; hunger; forced labor in a clock (watch) factory starting in 1941; obligation to wear a yellow badge;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Dina (Hachmon) Itav, born in Tripoli, Libya, about her experiences in Tripoli, in hiding in the countryside; and her deportation to a camp in the area

Testimony of Dina (Hachmon) Itav, born in Tripoli, Libya, about her experiences in Tripoli, in hiding in the countryside; and her deportation to a camp in the area Childhood in Tripoli; life under Italian rule; war breaks out; hiding in villages near Tripoli; arrested by Germans and interned in a detention camp; life in the camp; grandmother dies in the camp; Italian forces release the witness; back to Tripoli; liberation by British forces; reestablishing life after the wear; Arab riots against Jews in 1945; brothers operate in the underground to deliver illegal immigrants to Eretz Israel; witness moves to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Heinz Avrahamson Aviram, born in Berlin, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Berlin, in hiding and in the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Heinz Avrahamson Aviram, born in Berlin, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Berlin, in hiding and in the underground Childhood in Berlin; rise of the Nazi Party to power, 1933; anti-Jewish legislation; displays of antisemitism at school; Nazi propaganda; his father's collapse; deportation of Jews without [German] citizenship, 1938; Kristallnacht; expulsion from the German school; transfer to a Jewish school; Aryanization; confiscation of property; prohibition on entrance into public places; food coupons; hunger; forced labor in a watch factory, 1941; Yellow Badge; deportation of...

File Number : 14231

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew