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Excerpts from the memoirs of Esther Lurie regarding her experiences during the Holocaust, and documentation related to her artistic activities during the Holocaust

- Excerpts from the memoirs of Esther Lurie regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stutthof camp during the Holocaust, and her efforts to document reality in her paintings; - Documentation regarding the publication of an album of paintings of the Kaunas Ghetto, "Living Testimony", 1958; - Documentation regarding the production of a documentary film, "Living Testimony", dedicated to the artistic activities of Esther Lurie in the Kaunas Ghetto; - Documentation regarding the Eichmann Trial; - Documentation regarding the Kaunas Ghetto and prominent figures in the life of the Kaunas Ghetto...

File Number : 7

Type of Material : Financial Records, Draft, Correspondence, Note, Article, Memoirs

Language : Italian, Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Russian, German

Testimony of Izrail Veselnitzkiy (Ivan Vasilenko, during the war), born in 1906, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in POW camps, in the Sonderkommando in the Ninth Fort, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the partisans during 1941-1945, and his participation in the mass escape from the Ninth Fort during the night of 25-26 December 1943 The audio testimony was recorded in Vilnius on 02/12/1988, in a speech directed to the participants at a gathering marking 45 years since the escape; the gathering was intended to be held in Kaunas; Draft of the witness into the Red Army at the outbreak of the war; he...

File Number : 10830

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Biography of Rivka (Korner) Klachko, born in 1914, rewritten by Gali Tsachor in 1987, and memoirs of her experiences in the Kovno Ghetto

Biography of Rivka (Korner) Klachko, born in 1914, rewritten by Gali Tsachor in 1987, and memoirs of her experiences in the Kovno Ghetto Life with her parents and eight siblings; attendance at school in Memel; work in Memel and Kovno; death of her father; life of her sister Gotel in Kybartai; Outbreak of the war; murder of Gotel's family; deportation to the Kovno Ghetto with her twin sister Rachel and their mother; entrusting of Rachel's little son to a local woman (disappearance of the local woman with the child); deportation with her mother to a camp; camp life, including work digging ditches until the...

File Number : 9691

Type of Material : Memoirs, Curriculum Vitae (cv)

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Documentation relating to the experiences of the Segalson family of Kovno in the Kovno ghetto and in Dachau during the Holocaust, and in Eretz Israel after the Holocaust

Documentation relating to the experiences of the Segalson family of Kovno in the Kovno ghetto and in Dachau during the Holocaust, and in Eretz Israel after the Holocaust - oath of the Jewish police official in the Vilijampole ghetto, September 1, 1942, in Hebrew and Yiddish, along with a page bearing the signatures of members of the Jewish police (photocopy); - documentation relating to the experiences of Schmuel Segalson in 1946–1957, including: - two letters sent to S. Segalson, Tel Aviv, by hattiers in Novy Jicin (on November 14, 1946) and in Switzerland (on November 21, 1946), in German (original); -...

File Number : 145

Type of Material : List of Murdered Jews, List of Jews, Medical Documentation, Letter

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, German, Yiddish

Testimony of Aleks Burshtein, born in 1940 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences as an infant in the Kaunas ghetto and in hiding with Ukrainian Christian women

Testimony of Aleks Burshtein, born in 1940 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences as an infant in the Kaunas ghetto and in hiding with Ukrainian Christian women Soviet occupation and rule in 1940; German occupation ensues in 1941; witness deported to Kaunas ghetto; living conditions in the ghetto; parents mobilized for forced labor; father is assistant to the Judenrat chairman; Aktionen; hidden in a bunker in the ghetto during Aktion in 1942; hidden with a Lithuanian woman acquaintance in Kaunas and sent back to the ghetto in 1943; uncle escapes to the partisans; witness hiden with a Lithuanian woman...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

To be translated

File Number : 8737

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew