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Testimony of Hirsh Neiburger, who worked in the Housing Office in the Kaunas ghetto, regarding his fate among the Jews of the ghetto

- His father, Yosef Neiburger, was a public figure in Kaunas; pogroms by Lithuanians in Kaunas after the entry of the Germans; his work in the Housing Office in Slobodka during the planning of the ghetto in Slobodka, June 1941, and his entry as part of his work to many homes where traces of murders committed by the "Shaulists" (Lithuanians) were evident; Aktionen; kidnapping of Jews from their homes and murders at the seventh Fort and the ninth Fort, July 1941; order to wear the yellow badge and other anti-Jewish decrees, July 1941; order for the Jews of Kaunas to move to the ghetto in Slobodka; representatives...

File Number : 1286

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Yiddish

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

Testimony of Max Volpert, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1931, regarding his experiences in ghetto Kaunas and in Dachau and Kaufering Lager III camps.

Testimony of Max Volpert, born in Kaunas, Lithuania,in 1931,regarding his experiences in ghetto Kaunas and in Dachau and Kaufering Lager III camps. Family life and childhood in Kaunas before war; Soviet occupation; housing Russian pilots in part of family house; closing down of school and transfer to Soviet school; cessation of father's work as self employed and transfer to working in cooperative; outbreak of war; German occupation; occupancy of family house by German soldiers; cessation of father's work; they hear rumors about murders by Lithuanians; anti Jewish legislation; wearing Jewish star; walking is...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pesakh Mordokhovich, born in Slobodka, Lithuania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and deportation to Stutthof, Landsberg and Kaufering camps

Testimony

Testimony of Pesakh Mordokhovich, born in Slobodka, Lithuania in 1928, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and deportation to Stutthof, Landsberg and Kaufering camps His family's life in Slobodka; his father is a laborer at a sawmill; his family speaks Yiddish at home; Jewish holidays; studies in a Jewish school; Soviet occupation, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union in June 1941; escape to Palanga with a group of children from a summer camp; escape back to Slobodka; his family's home is included inside the boundaries of the local ghetto in August 1941; transfer to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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 Manuela Mina (Stein) Wulff, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1937, regarding her experiences during 1941-1972

Testimony of Manuela Mina (Stein) Wulff, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1937, regarding her experiences during 1941-1972 Her childhood with her parents Max and Raya Stein and her older sister Izana, in an educated family in Kaunas; Deportation to the Viliampol-Slobodka Ghetto, 07/1941; murder of her grandfather Hersh Stein and his daughter Vera, who resided in the small ghetto, during an "Aktion"; capture of her uncle Liolya Stein by a Jewish policeman named Aronstamm; execution of Aronstamm after the war, after being accused of collaboration with the Germans; separation from her parents, following rumors...

File Number : 8820

Type of Material : Survey

Language : Hebrew

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File Number : 8737

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew