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Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea Lurzia (Leker) Doitsch, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vijnita, on a march to Transnistria and in Derebchin

Testimony

Testimony of Lea Lurzia (Leker) Doitsch, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vijnita, on a march to Transnistria and in Derebchin Orphaned; attends a Romanian school and Beit Yaakov for seven years; Maccabi activities; neighborly relations between Jews and non-Jews. Outbreak of war; anti-Jewish legislation; restrictions; ban on employing housemaids and on running businesses; professional training; draft of men to forced labor; deportation to Transnistria; transport on freight trains for about seven days; crossing the Dniester; deliberate drowning of Jews; march to Shargorod;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tonia (Meser) Shmerlowski, born in Sanok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Turka, Siberia and Kazakhstan

Testimony

Testimony of Tonia (Meser) Shmerlowski, born in Sanok, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Sanok, Turka, Siberia and Kazakhstan The witness' father is an intellectual; receives a Polish and a Jewish (Beit Yakov) education; relations between Poles and Jews; meeting with Jewish refugees from Germany; help to refugees before the war; hoarding food. Outbreak of the war; shelling; German occupation; restrictions on Jews; burning of synagogues; deportation to the Soviet Union; crossing the San; brutal treatment of the deportees by the Ukrainians; life in Turka for approximately nine months; attendance at...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews and the suppression and murder of the local population in the Vitebsk region during 1941-1944

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews and the suppression and murder of the local population in the Vitebsk region during 1941-1944 Survey reports and investigation reports of witnesses, regarding the establishment of the Vitebsk Ghetto in 07/1941; murder of Jews from Vitebsk starting in 07/1941; murder of Jews, who were drowned in the Dvina River on 18/07/1941; Survey reports and investigation reports of witnesses, regarding the murder of Jews of the Lepel Ghetto on 28/02/1942; documentation regarding the suppression and murder of the local population...

File Number : JM/10647

Type of Material : Exhumation Report, Survey Report, Official Documentation, Statistical Report, Investigation Report, List of Nazi War Criminals

Language : Russian

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews by the Germans and local collaborators in the Polesye region during 1941-1944

Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews by the Germans and local collaborators in the Polesye region during 1941-1944 Survey reports and investigation reports of witnesses, regarding the establishment of a ghetto in Kalinkovichi on 20/06/1941; murder of Jews from Kalinkovichi near Kalinkovichi on 22/09//1941; Exhumation report from the Jewish cemetery in Mozyr and from other places in the Mozyr vicinity; documentation regarding the [forced] drowning of Jews in Mozyr in 1941; Murder of Jews in the Komarin district (manhunt for Jewish families in...

File Number : JM/10645

Type of Material : Survey Report, Exhumation Report, Official Documentation, Statistical Report, List of Collaborators, Names, List of Nazi War Criminals

Language : Russian

Testimony of Mordechai Schnapp, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1904, regarding his experiences in Storojinet, Transnistria, near the Dnestr river, Budi, Obodovka and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Schnapp, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1904, regarding his experiences in Storojinet, Transnistria, near the Dnestr river, Budi, Obodovka and in hiding Soviet occupation of Bukovina, 1940; Jewish life in Storojinet; Soviet retreat, June 1941; German occupation; stealing, robbery and murder of Jews; collection of the Jews in the square; attitude towards the Jews including injuring Rabbi Gizensburg; murder of some of the Jews in the nearby forest before their deportation to the ghetto; deportation of Jews to Transnistria, Simchat Torah (Rejoicing of the Law)(14 October) 1941; murder on the...

File Number : 4037

Type of Material : Testimony, Poems/songs

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, born in Gritsev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Gritsev Ghetto, Starokonstantinov Ghetto and with a partisan unit in forests

Testimony

Testimony of Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, born in Gritsev, Ukraine, 1931, regarding her experiences in the Gritsev Ghetto, Starokonstantinov Ghetto and with a partisan unit in forests Outbreak of the war, summer 1941; attempt to escape; return to Gritsev with her family; anti-Jewish decrees; murder including drowning of Jews in a lake by Ukrainian policemen; murder of men in a forest near Gritsev in the first "Aktion", August 1941; rescue with her mother and toddler sister; life in the Gritsev Ghetto including murder in the Slavuta forests during the second "Aktion" in the autumn; transfer with those who were left...

File Number : 4019

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding the visit by Emma Katz in Kamenka, in memory of her grandparents Moisey Rubin and Tzeytla Rubin, who were murdered along with the Jews of Kamenka in 1941

Documentation regarding the visit by Emma Katz in Kamenka, in memory of her grandparents Moisey Rubin and Tzeytla Rubin, who were murdered along with the Jews of Kamenka in 1941 - Memories of Emma Katz of her visit in Kamenka during the 1990s, and her efforts to commemorate the memory of her grandfather and grandmother (Moisey Rubin was drowned in the Dniester River along with other Jews from Kamenka during winter 1941, and Tzeytla Rubin was shot near Kamenka during battles there), (date not indicated); - Article by Valerian Ponomarev, regarding the visit of Emma Katz in Kamenka, published in the magazine...

File Number : 79

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Ilona (Hart) Ungar from Ungvar, Czechoslovakia, regarding the murder of the baby of Rozie Lefkowitz in Auschwitz by an SS officer

Memoirs of Ilona (Hart) Ungar from Ungvar, Czechoslovakia, regarding the murder of the baby of Rozie Lefkowitz in Auschwitz by an SS officer Birth of Rozie Lefkowitz's baby in Auschwitz; murder by drowning of the baby by an SS officer who called him "Moisheleh"; end of the war. Return of Ilona and Rozie to Ungvar; receipt of information regarding the location of the SS officer who murdered the baby; prosecution of the SS officer; loss of the suit against the SS officer by Rozie due to lack of evidence; Ilona's meeting in New York with [female] Holocaust survivors from Ungvar, including meeting Julie, the...

File Number : 8692

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Hungarian