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Letters sent to Leah and Rivka Krelitz in Mexico by family members in Yurburg, 1937 - 1941

Letters sent to Leah and Rivka Krelitz in Mexico by family members in Yurburg, 1937 - 1941 Letters sent to Leah and Rivka Krelitz by family members including Moshe, Leibel, Rochel and Feige Krelitz who perished during the Holocaust; the letters focus on the life of Jews in Lithuania before the war including threats on the Jews lives, the possibility to immigrate to Mexico during January 1939 and request for help in April 1939; Murder of Jews [in Yurburg?] by Lithuanian neighbors after the German occupation of Lithuania during June 1941; Hannah Magidovitz, the sole survivor of her family; testimony of...

File Number : 1786

Type of Material : Statistical Report, Testimony, Letter

Language : Spanish, English, Yiddish

Review report regarding the participation of Lithuanian collaborators in the murder of Jews in Sauliai, 1941-1944

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : Lithuanian

To be translated

File Number : 1555

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

Perlmutter, S.: Testimony on the destruction of Jews from villages in the Swieciany region: Stojaciszak, Hojduciszak, Podbrodzie, Twercz, Swieciany, Czajkin, Meligion, Dugeliszki Nowe, Stare Dugeliszki and Koltoniony.

File Number : 1498

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Hirsh Milstein regarding the lives of Jews in Subacius and their fate during the German occupation

- Detailed description of Jewish life in Subacius before the rise to power of the Nazis; Subacius was centrally located on the railway line; names of rabbis, public figures and dealers in Subacius; burning of the synagogue; German occupation; violence by Lithuanian nationalists; order to gather at the Beit Midrash; the ghetto was established around the Beit Midrash; forced digging of pits and mass murder into the pits; list of survivors; rescue stories; Wolf Kashnir tried to remain in the town with his three children but eventually had to flee from Lithuanian partisans; sense of mourning due to the destruction...

File Number : 1271

Type of Material : List of Survivors, Testimony

Language : Yiddish