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Memoirs of Yafa Kimchi, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Gorkiy region, a kolkhoz in Samarkand, and other places

Memoirs of Yafa Kimchi, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Gorkiy region, a kolkhoz in Samarkand, and other places Life before the war; participation in aliya training groups; attends a Hebrew high school. Soviet occupation; air-raids on Kaunas, June 1941; escape with members of the aliya training group; escape by train to the Gorkiy region; escape to Uzbekistan; life in Samarkand including labor in a kolkhoz; inadequate nutrition; draft of the men to the Red Army, including her brother; her brother is wounded in battle at the front; labor in food storerooms of...

File Number : 8293

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Feffer, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas and Krumau

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Feffer, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas and Krumau Her childhood in a traditional family of craftsmen, including her attending a Tarbut school; work and activities in Hapoel Hatzair. Help to refugees who were transferred from Poland and Germany; Red Army occupation of Kaunas; deportation of wealthy people and business owners; German Army occupation of Kaunas, 1941; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish acts of abuse; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; Kaunas Ghetto life including an "Aktion"; murder of her parents and two younger...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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

The testimony of Lyubov Kogan (formerly Borkum), born in Zhagare, Lithuania in 1913, regarding her experiences in Central Asia and the fate of her family members

The testimony of Lyubov Kogan (formerly Borkum), born in Zhagare, Lithuania in 1913, regarding her experiences in Central Asia and the fate of her family members Marriage to Boris Borkum in March 1941; outbreak of war between the Soviet Union and Germany on 22 June, 1941; the murder of Boris Borkum's mother by Lithuanians; conscription of the witness's husband and two brothers into the Red Army; escape to Central Asia; death of Boris in battle in 1943; death of her brother Motal Hayt in battle in 1943; death of her brother Aron Hayt in battle in 1945; murder of members of the Kogan family (the family of her...

File Number : 4627

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Russian

Memoirs of Polina (Tokerene) Toker, born in Radviliskis, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Radviliskis camp, in the Shaulyay Ghetto, and in hiding in Kuzhay

Memoirs of Polina (Tokerene) Toker, born in Radviliskis, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Radviliskis camp, in the Shaulyay Ghetto, and in hiding in Kuzhay Life before the war in Radviliskis; transfer of Lithuania to the Lithuanian authorities by the Soviet Union; leaving forces of the Red Army in place; transfer of local residents to the Soviet Union; escape of her husband Khaim Tokeris for treatment in Sochi; outbreak of the Soviet-German war on 22 June, 1941; attempted escape from the area; outbreak of fighting in Radviliskis; life in a village with the Povilyus family; German occupation of...

File Number : 4270

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimonies regarding Lithuanian war criminal, the veterinarian and physician Dr. Zubrycki (also known as: Zubrickas, Zubrickis, Zubricki, Zubritzki, Zubritcki), 1947-1950

Testimonies regarding Lithuanian war criminal, the veterinarian and physician Dr. Zubrycki (also known as: Zubrickas, Zubrickis, Zubricki, Zubritzki, Zubritcki), 1947-1950 Included in the file: 1) Handwritten note about a warrant of arrest against physician Dr. Zubrycki, 31/08/1948; 2) Typewritten message from an unknown (and unsigned) source to the Law Department of the Central Jewish Committee in Munich, 20/08/1948, regarding the location of Dr Zubrycki; the note states that Dr. Zubritcki resides nearby in Linz, where he works in a camp (details not specified); 3) Copy of a typewritten letter to...

File Number : 798

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Rachel (Hes) Grinstein, born in Jurbarkas, Lithuania, 1917, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Palemonas and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Hes) Grinstein, born in Jurbarkas, Lithuania, 1917, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Palemonas and Stutthof Family with 10 family members; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; attends a Jewish elementary school and a Jewish high school; her father is a cattle merchant. Annexation of Lithuania to the Soviet Union; displays of antisemitism by the local population; German occupation of Kaunas, where her family lived, June 1941; her family's unsuccessful attempt to escape by train; escape to Jonova; her brother's arrest; return to Kaunas; deportation of young Jews to forced labor;...

File Number : 9847

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chana Golemba, born in Varniai, Lithuania, 1907; regarding her experiences in Nevarenai, Geruliai, the Telsiai Ghetto and in hiding in Vaislaukiai

Testimony of Chana Golemba, born in Varniai, Lithuania, 1907; regarding her experiences in Nevarenai, Geruliai, the Telsiai Ghetto and in hiding in Vaislaukiai Life before the war; move with her husband to Telsiai, 1931; life in Telsiai. Air-raids by the German Air Force over Telsiai; escape to Nevarenai; life in Nevareni in the barn of a rabbi; looting of property by Lithuanians; abuse by Lithuanians; deportation to the Viesvenai farm; life on the farm including meeting with Jews from Varniai; deportation of Jews from Tverai to the farm; deportation of women and children from Zarenai to the farm;...

File Number : 37

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Hershel Gurvich, regarding his experiences in Swieciany

Testimony of Hershel Gurvich, regarding his experiences in Swieciany Life in Swieciany including riots and the murder of Jews by Lithuanians, before the German occupation.

File Number : 141

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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File Number : 915

Type of Material : Excerpt(s), Article(s), List(s), Text(s)

Language : Lithuanian

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