Letter written by Yakov Zirnovski, born in Vilkomir, Lithuania, 1907, in Vilna, to his sister Batsheva in Eretz Israel, 25 January 1945, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and his escape from the ghetto, in summer 1943
Work at the University in Vilna;
German occupation of Vilna; dismissal of Jews from their jobs; legislation of anti-Jewish laws; murder of Jews in Ponary under the guise of forced labor; rescue from deportation on account of his not being at home; in hiding in a friend's cellar; return to his home, early September 1941; deportation to the small ghetto, where there were 8,000 Jews...
Poems written by Ruth Kaplan in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, the Rudniki forests, in Israel and in the United States during 1938-1991, and memoirs and documentation regarding Ruth Kaplan
Poems related to Ruth Rikaleh (Glezer) Kaplan (original):
- Poems/songs written by Ruth Kaplan in Lithuania in 1944, which she later reconstructed;
- Notebook with poems in Yiddish written by Ruth Kaplan in Lithuania during 1944-1945 [some of the poems were written in Vilna in 1939, and in the Vilna Ghetto in 1942]; the poems were reconstructed during 1944-1945;
- Poem "Tzum zeidens agada" ("Stories my grandfather...
File Number : 364
Type of Material : Genealogy, Memoirs, Internet Material, Testimony, Poems/songs, Notepad, Documentary, Interview(s), Notebook