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Testimony of Raja (Berkman) Beit Iosef in a letter sent from Sweden to her cousin (her mother's first cousin) Shlomo Frank in Eretz Israel regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and Stutthof and the circumstances surrounding the murders of her family and Shlomo's family, 22 August 1946 Occupation of Vilna and murder of Jews; deportation of the surviving family members to the Vilna Ghetto; transfer of the family members to Ponary and their murder; escape from death in Ponary and return to the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to a concentration camp in Riga; escape from the...

File Number : 8634

Type of Material : Genealogy, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Diary written by Jakov Glazmann in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding in a village in the area of the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1944, and photographs [apparently, his family members]

Diary written by Jakov Glazmann in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding in a village in the area of the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1944, and photographs [apparently, his family members] Comments by the submitter of the material: Jakov Glazmann was born in 1911 or 1913; he owned a building materials store; Jakov stayed with his wife and daughter (the submitter of the material), who was born in Vilna, 1937, in the Vilna Ghetto for three years; after the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, the family was transferred to a labor camp that was established there; the family evaded an "Aktion" and escaped to a hiding place...

File Number : 8626

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Yiddish

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...

File Number : 8532

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Fruma (Feimushevitz) Nir, born in Vilna, Poland, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in Vilna before the war, in the Vilna Ghetto, in Stutthof, Kajzerwald and the Gotendorf camp and on a death march Life in Vilna before the war. German occupation; life in the Vilna Ghetto until 24 September 1943; deportation to Kajzerwald; camp life until September 1944; transfer to Stutthof via Danzig; death march, 25 January 1945; halt in the Gotendorf camp for three weeks; liberation by the Red Army, 10 March 1945. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.

File Number : 8332

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

To be translated

File Number : 2403

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 655

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

תרגום של ספר על ד''ר רוזה שבד-גברונסקה, מנהלת בית ילדים בגטו Wilno

Hebrew translation of book about Dr. Roza Shabad-Gawronska, director of a children's home in the Wilno ghetto - "The Heavens Wept," written by Mildred Tenney Handy and translated by Hadas Yoshua Miron, tells the experiences of Dr. Roza Shabad-Gawronska, born in Wilno in 1882, before and during the Holocaust: Childhood in Wilno; medical studies in Germany; working as a pediatrician; lives and works in Wilno from 1921 on; persecution of Jews of Wilno after German–Soviet war breaks out; witness sent to the Wilno ghetto in September 1941; medical activity in the ghetto; establishes children's home in the ghetto...

File Number : 905

Type of Material : Biography

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944 - memoirs of Meir Shtein regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944); - memoirs of Paula Shtein (maiden name: Znamirovski) regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in the Białystok Ghetto (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944): life in Vilna with her husband Mark and son Izho (Israel), after their escape from Warsaw on 3 September 1939; air-raids on Vilna on 22 June 1941; the German...

File Number : 11253

Type of Material : Memoirs, Diary

An article about Dr. Roza Shabad Gawronska from Vilna who perished in the Holocaust, a document relating to Irena Anikst, and the genealogy of the Gershuni family from Vilna

An article about Dr. Roza Shabad Gawronska from Vilna who perished in the Holocaust, a document relating to Irena Anikst, and the genealogy of the Gershuni family from Vilna An article by Muriel Chochois dated 30 January 2012 concerning Dr. Roza (Shabad) Gawronska, born in 1882, and the Shabad family: - high school studies in Vilna until 1899; medical studies at universities in Freiburg im Breisgau and in St. Petersburg; life in Montreux, Switzerland in 1914-1916; moved to St. Petersburg in 1916; work as a doctor for the Red Cross organization in the Caucasus area in 1917-1921; return to Vilna in 1921 and,...

File Number : 575

Type of Material : Article, Genealogy, Personal Documents

Language : Polish, French, Russian

Memoirs of Yokheved Vakshtok, (maiden name: Baran), born in Vilna in 1918, regarding her family's experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in Riga Kaiserwald camp, in Gnewin, on death marches, in a DP camp in Munich and aliya to Israel Memoirs of Yokheved (Baran) Vakshtok, written by her daughter Tzipi Bar El in March 2011, based on her mother's words: Her parents - Faige and Yisrael Baran; her brothers and sisters, all born in Vilna: Betty born in 1912, married and mother to Meir Meikele; Rosa born in 1920; Shlomo born in 1926; residence in Vilna; the family owns a shoe store; occupation of Vilna by the Germans in...

File Number : 10999

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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