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Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof Death of his mother when he was 8 years old; studies in a "heder" in Tels; family life; treatment by the local population; sympathy for the Communist Party; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; detention of his brother Chaim in a camp for several years; emigration of his sister to Rhodesia; move to Slobodka due to his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937; death of his father, February 1939; work as a...

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto, in the Stutthof area and in the Augsburg camp

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto; the Stutthof area and the Augsburg camp Life before the war; death of his mother when he was 8 years old; learns in a "heder"; affinity towards the Communist movement; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; deportation of his brother to a camp; move to Slobodka following his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; life in Slobodka; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937, death of his father, February, 1939. The Soviet occupation; labor as a watchmaker; his appointment as a Commisar; fleeing of the Red...

File Number : 8505

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

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File Number : 1800

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 1228

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 2447

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 655

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Manuela (Shtein) Vulf, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1937, regarding her experiences in her escape from the ghetto and hiding in a village

Family background; life before the war; Soviet occupation in 1940; nationalization of the family business; German occupation in June 1941; murder of Jews by Lithuanians; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto in August 1941; the large “Aktion” in October 1941; studying in secret; smuggling of food by her father; rumors regarding the “Aktion” against children in Siauliai; the witness is smuggled out of the ghetto in exchange for a bribe in January 1944; hiding in Meskuiciai; herds geese and cows; approach of the front; the witness is sent back to Kaunas unaccompanied; liberation by the Red Army in August 1944; life...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Sonja Sheyna Haid Greene (maiden name: Pessin), born in Siauliai, regarding her experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in camps in Lithuania and Germany in 1941-1945, and regarding the fate of members of her family in the Holocaust life in Siauliai before the war; life under Soviet occupation; escape to Vilna and studies at the university; escape back to the family home due to concern about the war; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; escape from the city; hiding in a pig pen in the village for the night; escape back to her home; arrest of her father and Elik...

File Number : 11134

Type of Material : Memoirs, Article

Language : English, Yiddish

Transcript of an interview with Simkha Brudno, born in Siauliai, regarding his experiences in the Siauliai Ghetto and in Dachau and Stutthof camps during the Holocaust, and his life in Israel and the United States after the war The ghetto: Reasons for the rarity of escapes from the ghetto (hunger and being informed on by local residents); attempted escapes from the ghetto; escape of a group of young people into the forests; informed on by Lithuanians and their return to the ghetto; refusal of people to escape due to the dangers and harsh conditions outside the ghetto; The ghetto leaders keep quiet...

File Number : 9206

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

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