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Testimony of Esther Ton, born in Kursenai, Lithuania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the Siauliai Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Ton, born in Kursenai, Lithuania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the Siauliai Ghetto and other places Her parents' home; move to Raseiniai; marriage, 1939. Red Army occupation of Lithuania; nationalization of Jewish property; escape to a village; air-raids, June 1941; murder of her husband; German Army occupation of Lithuania, 1941; life under German occupation including the imposition of restrictions and decrees; murder of her father; transfer of her mother and her sister to Zagreb; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a storeroom;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 54, 16/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Kidnapping of four Schutzpolizei (Schupo-Protective Police) near Sabac, Yugoslavia, by the partisans; discovery of two of the bodies [of the kidnapped men]; expansion of the activity of Communist partisan units; establishment of Jagdkompanien ("game hunt" companies) in fighting the partisans; expansion of the Serbian gendarmerie, by recommendation of the...

File Number : 163.54

Type of Material : Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : German

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942

Documentation of the Sicherheitspolizei und S.D. (Sipo and SD), including reports and orders of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet territories, 1941-1942 Included in the file: Pages 2-3: Letter from the commander of the Sipo and SD in Vilna to the Gestapo in Tilsit, 30 August 1941, reporting that the couple Emil and Anna Mecklenburger, a man named Jagomastas, his wife and his two sons have all been “dealt with as was advised in your letter of July 24.” He also proposed arresting the relatives of these families who are residing in Tilsit, and the son Emil Jagomastas, born, 04 August 1910, who is in Dresden at...

File Number : 3

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Sonia Tur, born in Telsiai, Lithuania in 1920, regarding her expulsion to the Telsiai Ghetto, escape, and obtaining forged papers

Testimony of Sonia Tur, born in Telsiai, Lithuania in 1920, regarding her expulsion to the Telsiai Ghetto, escape, and obtaining forged papers Family life; move to Kaunas (Kovno); work in an x-ray institute; the German occupation in 1941; restrictions imposed on Jews, including wearing the yellow badge and restrictions on movement; ghettoization; work in the ghetto hospital; burning of the ghetto hospital; the great “aktion”; selection; payment of a bribe to have a friend removed from the ghetto; escape from the ghetto; obtaining forged papers; escape to Vienna; work in a hospital; meeting with soldiers of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew