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Article by Povilas Shtaras titled, "The Heroic Deeds of the Komsomol in Lithuania", regarding the resistance of the Jewish underground fighters in the Viliampole Ghetto and of the escape from the Ninth Fort, 10 October 1958

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Article, Names

Language : Russian

Testimony of Eugeniusz Redlich, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding the Sonderkommando uprising in Birkenau

Testimony of Eugeniusz Redlich, born in Krakow, Poland, 1923, regarding the Sonderkommando uprising in Birkenau Selection among the Sonderkommando inmates, October 1944; transfer of 200 inmates to Auschwitz, with the promise to transfer them to another camp; the inmates receive new clothing, after taking a shower; the inmates are then sent to the gas chambers; coordination of an uprising among the Sonderkommando inmates, mainly by Jews, before the next selection, and the preparation of weapons and ammunition; explosion of the two large crematoria, as a central aim; disarming of 14 SS men and a German Kapo of...

File Number : 375

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Suraski (b. 1928 in Kaunas, Lithuania) about his history in Kaunas, the Kaunas ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, and Waarkirchen

Testimony of Chaim Suraski (b. 1928 in Kaunas, Lithuania) about his history in Kaunas, the Kaunas ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, and Waarkirchen Childhood in Kaunas; Soviet rule is introduced in 1940; German occupation ensues in June 1941; mass murder of Jews by Lithuanians; dispossession of the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow star requirement; receiving assistance from Lithuanian acquaintances; banishment to the Kaunas ghetto; liquidation of the "small ghetto"; murder of grandmother and aunt at the Ninth Fort; life in the "large ghetto" including forced labor and hunger; black market; underground...

File Number : 14390

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 230

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Newspaper Clippings, Article, Letter

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, English, Russian, Yiddish