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P.65 - Yaffa Eliach Collection Professor Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa (Sheinla) Sonenson in the village of Ejszyszki, Poland (in Yiddish: Eyshishok; today Eišiškės, Lithuania) in 1935. Nazi Germany occupied the village in June 1941. Within two days in late September, almost all 3,500 Jews of the village were murdered in the local cemetery by Einsatzgruppe A. Yaffa escaped to a hiding place with her family just before the massacre. Until the liberation of Eyshishok by the Red Army in July 1944, the family moved from one hiding place to another, escaping death many times. Yaffa made aliya to Eretz Israel in...

Type of Material : Research Literature, Article(s), List(s), Text(s), Record of Survivors, Study, Testimony, Document, Interview(s), Photograph, Memoirs

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian, German, Yiddish