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Testimony of Rosa-Shoshana (Gafanovitz) Bloch, born in Kaunas, Poland, 1930

Testimony

Testimony of Rosa-Shoshana (Gafanovitz) Bloch, born in Kaunas, Poland, 1930 Daughter of Marcus and Ana Gafanovitz; childhood in a secular home; attends a Hebrew school. Russian occupation; changes in the lives of the Jews from an economic, cultural and religious point of view; deportation of Jews to Siberia; German occupation; anti-Jewish decrees; confiscation of property; travel restrictions; yellow badge, and more; cruel murder of Jews in a garage [S---]; participation of the Lithuanians in the murder of Jews; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, October 1941; forced labor of men in the airfield; reporting...

File Number : 13061

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tatiana (Glik) Katz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in the Siauliai Ghetto, Troskunai Ghetto, Stutthof, a death march and Chinow

Testimony

Testimony of Tatiana (Glik) Katz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences as a child in the Siauliai Ghetto, Troskunai Ghetto, Stutthof, a death march and Chinow Life in Siauliai before the war; religious family; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Help to Jewish refugees from Warsaw, 1939; Soviet occupation, 1940; deportation of Jews to Siberia; unsuccessful attempt by her family to escape with several Soviets; deportation to the Siauliai Ghetto; Siauliai Ghetto life including labor in an airfield and in agriculture; "Aktion" against men; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943;...

File Number : 12964

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leon Sendler, born in Salant, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and escaping to the forests

Testimony

Testimony of Leon Sendler, born in Salant, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and escaping to the forests His childhood in a poor home; his father is a peddler; studies in a "heder" and an elementary school; his father's death; transfer to Kaunas to work; the entry of Lithuanians under false pretext into their home; attempt to shoot them; saved by the Lithuania landlord; deportation of the Jews to the Kaunas Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life; forced labor in an airport; murdering of Jews by Lithuanians; his marriage on Lag B'Omer, 1942; the behavior of the Judenrat people; harassment by a Jewish...

File Number : 11228

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Ester (Levin) Sandler, born in Joniskelis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Schans, the Slobodka Ghetto, the Kaunas Ghetto, labor camps, forests and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Levin) Sandler, born in Joniskelis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Schans, the Slobodka Ghetto, the Kaunas Ghetto, labor camps, forests and other places From a religious family; move at the age of ten to her sister in Schans; work in a textile factory; relations with the Lithuanian neighbors; rescue from Lithuanian gendarmes by the neighbors. German occupation, June 1941; riots by Lithuanians; deportation to the Slobodka Ghetto; ghetto life with her family; transfer with her family to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including marriage, 1942; transfer with her husband to a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Foma Munitzatz, born in Skapiskis, Lithuania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Foma Munitzatz, born in Skapiskis, Lithuania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding in a forest Home; attends a Lithuanian non-Jewish school; relations with non-Jewish friends; her parents' relations with their non-Jewish neighbors; deterioration of the situation, 1938-1939; attack on the Jews and their property; travel with her family to visit relatives in Vilna, summer, 1941; German occupation and flight of the Soviets; Jews are pulled out of their homes and taken to a narrow alley; her family survive for six months; rumors about the massacre of Jews by Lithuanians...

File Number : 9654

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps Family life in Danzig; move of the family to Kaunas, 1938. Life under Soviet rule until German occupation, June 1941; concentration of the Jews by Lithuanian gendarmes in Slobodka; release of the family; mass shooting of Jews in Slobodka; detention of the family in the Kaunas prison, July 1941; murder of his mother with other women in a forest; sealing of the ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life; "Aktion", October 1941; membership in the Brit Zion youth movement; conversion...

File Number : 6415

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana (maiden name: Zimon) Rokhman, born in 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas and in the Slobodka Ghetto.

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (maiden name: Zimon) Rokhman, born in 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas and in the Slobodka Ghetto. Childhood in Klaipeda in a traditional home; manifestations of antisemitism before the war; attending a German school; the German occupation in 1939; escape to Kovno; attending a Jewish school; participation in the "Hashomer Hatzair" movement; Soviet regime from 1940; German occupation in 1941; her family’s arrest by Lithuanians; released with her mother, brother and sister three weeks later; the deportation of her father and her nine-year-old younger...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew