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Memoirs of Dora (Gelgor) Granatowicz, born in Molėtai, Lithuania, in 1923; her experiences in Rumšiškės, the Kaunas ghetto; and the Stutthof camp; and documentation associated with Dora

Memoirs of Dora (Gelgor) Granatowicz, born in Molėtai, Lithuania, in 1923; her experiences in Rumšiškės, the Kaunas ghetto; and the Stutthof camp; and documentation associated with Dora Parents: Heinich and Cipel (Katz) Gelgor; living in Molėtai; siblings: Veloleh, Shloimeleh, and Koppele; father's occupation: teacher; Red Army forces enter town; moving in with maternal aunt in Rumšiškės and working at a sewing ship; Germans enter Lithuania; deportation to the Kaunas ghetto; then to the Stutthof camp; forced labor at an airfield, building bunkers and runways; liberation in Bydgoszcz and moving to Lublin;...

File Number : 12539

Type of Material : Genealogy, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Biography, כתובה

Language : Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Russian, German, Aramaic

Memoirs of Meilach Lubocki regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the Port Kunda, Stutthof and Magdeburg camps during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Meilach Lubocki regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the Port Kunda, Stutthof and Magdeburg camps during the Holocaust - memoirs of Meilach Lubocki, written in Landsberg IDP camp in September 1945. The memoirs were translated from Yiddish to English by his brother Charles Lubocki (formerly Chaim Lubocki): Murder of Jews in Kaunas by the Lithuanians after the outbreak of the war; the German occupation of Kaunas on 24 June 1941; mass murders by Lithuanians and Germans; deportation of Kaunas Jews to the ghetto in August 1941; transfer to forced labor; "Aktions" in the...

File Number : 11910

Type of Material : Memoirs

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944

Memoirs of Meir and Paula Shtein regarding their experiences in the Vilna, Warsaw and Białystok Ghettos, written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944 - memoirs of Meir Shtein regarding the situation in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944); - memoirs of Paula Shtein (maiden name: Znamirovski) regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and in the Białystok Ghetto (written in hiding in Białystok in 1943-1944): life in Vilna with her husband Mark and son Izho (Israel), after their escape from Warsaw on 3 September 1939; air-raids on Vilna on 22 June 1941; the German...

File Number : 11253

Type of Material : Diary, Memoirs

Memoirs of Norman Nachum, born on March 22, 1905, in Łódź, and of Channa Anne Milner née Veller, born on January 13, 1909, in Kaunas, about their experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas ghetto, the Kaufering I and Malken camps, death marches, staying in the Eschwege displaced persons camp, and emigration to Canada Memoirs of Norman Nachum: Life in Kaunas; the Germans enter Kaunas in June 1941; murder of Jews by Lithuanians, deportation of Nachum, his wife Channa née Veller, his son Abraham, and their family members to the ghetto in town; anti-Jewish legislation, wearing a badge of shame; confiscation of Jewish...

File Number : 10737

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Memoirs of Vytautas Rimkevicius, born in Radviliškis, Lithuania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Krakės Ghetto

Memoirs of Vytautas Rimkevicius, born in Radviliškis, Lithuania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Krakės Ghetto Life in Krakės; activities of collaborators against the Jews; imposition of limitations on the Jews, including wearing the Yellow Badge; establishment of the ghetto; deportation to the ghetto with the Jews; deportation of the Jews of Dotnuva to the Krakės Ghetto; murder of the Krakės Jews in the area by Lithuanian collaborators, August 1941; robbery of Jewish houses in the ghetto by Lithuanian collaborators; destruction of the houses of the Jews in the ghetto. The memoirs were handwritten...

File Number : 9778

Type of Material : Documentary, Memoirs

Language : Lithuanian, Polish, English

Video testimony and an interview with Ella Kuritski, regarding her family's experiences near Varniai, including deportation to the ghetto, to labor camps in Germany, liberation, aliya to Israel and emigration to Canada - Video testimony (in English) of Ella Kuritski, born in Varniai, Lithuania, 01/01/1922, regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust; the testimony was collected in Canada; - Ban on the use of the Hebrew language by the government of Lithuania; German occupation of Lithuania, 1941; murder of Jews by Lithuanians; detention and imprisonment of Ella's father by Lithuanian...

Type of Material : Interview(s), Testimony

Language : English, Russian

To be translated

File Number : 8737

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew