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Memoirs of Isaak Klavanski, born in Liyepaya, Latvia, regarding his experiences in Liyepaya, in Ventspils, in Kenigsberg camp, his service in the Red Army in Berlin, and more

Memoirs of Isaak Klavanski, born in Liyepaya, Latvia, regarding his experiences in Liyepaya, in Ventspils, in Kenigsberg camp, his service in the Red Army in Berlin, and more Life in Liyepaya at the outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union on 22 June, 1941; escape of his wife and children to Riga; air-raids; battles on the area; work in a bakery; occupation by the Germans on 28 June 1941; air-raids of the family home; arrival of German administration staffers and Gestapo staffers; capture of Jews and Communists; murder of Jewish doctors; spreading antisemitic propaganda; anti-Jewish legislation;...

File Number : 5902

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Article, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Report, probably by a German security agency, regarding the political, economic and demographic situation in the Reichkommissariat Ostland, especially in the occupied Baltic countries, including the "Jewish question", 1941 (?) File number: 184 unreadable. (pp. 1 - 2) Description of the war at the Eastern front in Estonia and Russia. (pp. 2 -3) first part unreadable, then: short description of the work of the Sicherheitspolizei. (Security police) (p. 4) unreadable (p. 5) Einsatzgruppen reach Riga. Focus on "pacification of Lithuanian and Latvian land". The Sicherheitspolizei was responsible for...

File Number : 184

Testimony of Issack Leo Kram, born in Riga, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, camps in Latvia and Germany, and his activities in the Jewish underground

Testimony

Testimony of Issack Leo Kram, born in Riga, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto, camps in Latvia and Germany, and his activities in the Jewish underground His childhood in Riga; attends a Hebrew high school; education in the Beitar youth movement; acquaintanceship with Herbert Cukurs. Soviet occupation; deterioration in the attitude toward the Jews; German occupation; burning of Jews and synagogues in Riga by Latvian militias; detention of his father, 1941; death of his father in prison; deportation of Jews to the Riga Ghetto; harsh conditions; "Aktions"; murder of Jews; murder of his...

File Number : 11182

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944 Selma Schebschelowitz was born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920; family background and education; Escape to Riga together with her parents and her sister following the outbreak of the war; German occupation; working in the ruins of the old city, with the prefecture and as a maid for the Waffen-SS 1941; deportation to the Riga Ghetto together with her parents, 1941; escape from the ghetto, November 1941; living in hiding, for two years; escape...

File Number : 1602

Type of Material : Report, List of Jews, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs, List of Nazi War Criminals, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : German

Historiographical review of the Holocaust in Latvia

Historiographical review of the Holocaust in Latvia Draft of an article by M. Vestermanis on the historiography of the Holocaust in Latvia (not for publication).

File Number : 978

Type of Material : Article

Language : Latvian

Documentation regarding Samuel Kotzer, a violinist in the orchestra that accompanied those condemned to death

Documentation regarding Samuel Kotzer, a violinist in the orchestra that accompanied those condemned to death Samuel Kotzer was a violinist in the Orchestra of Latvia; his dismissal from his position due to antisemitism; he joins a coffee house orchestra; when he was an inmate in a detention camp, he was forced to play in the inmates' orchestra that accompanied those who were condemned to death; Included in the file: - Copy of a photograph of Samuel Kotzer with his wife and his son Yuval; - Copy of a photograph of Samuel Kotzer in the "Wien am Ring" coffee house orchestra; - Copy of a photograph of...

File Number : 204

Type of Material : Documentary

Language : Hebrew