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Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand

Testimony of Sara (Libovitz) Bialik, born in Plunge, Lithuania in 1922, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, in Latvia and Samarkand Her parents are dentists; studies in Klaipeda; her father visits Eretz Israel in 1938; outbreak of the war; visit by Hitler to Klaipeda, and the annexation of Klaipeda to Germany; escape to Lithuania; German occupation, 1941; escape to Latvia on the day of the invasion; murder of Jewish students at the university; air-raids on convoys of escapees; she gets onto the last train traveling toward the east; escape to Samarkand; her father's suicide attempt; detention of her...

File Number : 13619

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Gutner, born in 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, Dachau, the Landsberg camp, and Auschwitz during the war

Life before the war; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; property nationalized; German occupation ensues in June 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow star edict; witness deported to the Kaunas ghetto in August 1941; life in overcrowded conditions; Aktion in October 1941; activity of the Jewish police; mother smuggles food; studies in the ghetto; hides in a loft during the children's and elders' Aktion in March 1944; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; women and young children deported to Stutthof; children and fathers separated in the Landsberg camp; witness remains with a group of 131 children who survived...

File Number : 13627

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hanan Peled Caplonski, born in 1927 in Oszmiana, Poland, about his experiences in Oszmiana, in the camps (Joniskis, Utting, Stutthof), etc.

Testimony

Testimony of Hanan Peled Caplonski, born in 1927 in Oszmiana, Poland, about his experiences in Oszmiana, in the camps (Joniskis, Utting, Stutthof), etc. Live under Soviet occupation in 1939; German occupation ensues in 1941; Germans murder father and local men in 1941; deportation to the Oszmiana ghetto in 1941; assignment to roadbuilding labor in Lithuania with mother and sisters in 1943; transfer to Joniskis in 1943; life in the camp; reassignment to forced labor; typhus; transfer to Stutthof in 1944; transfer to Utting; life in the camp; working at a concrete pouring factory, digging trenches, and...

File Number : 13385

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther Ton, born in Kursenai, Lithuania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the Siauliai Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Esther Ton, born in Kursenai, Lithuania, 1919, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the Siauliai Ghetto and other places Her parents' home; move to Raseiniai; marriage, 1939. Red Army occupation of Lithuania; nationalization of Jewish property; escape to a village; air-raids, June 1941; murder of her husband; German Army occupation of Lithuania, 1941; life under German occupation including the imposition of restrictions and decrees; murder of her father; transfer of her mother and her sister to Zagreb; decree regarding wearing a yellow badge; concentration of the Jews in a storeroom;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel Childhood and youth in Vilna. Outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids; occupation of Vilna by the Soviet Army, 1939; life under the Lithuanian regime, 1939; pogrom by Lithuanians against the Jews, 1940; receiving a legal aliya certificate to Eretz Israel from her fiance in Eretz Israel, 1940; attempts to obtain a visa; aliya to Eretz Israel through Haleb, Istanbul, Odessa, Minsk, Moskow and Beirut, 1942. Receiving information regarding the death of her father in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Riva Abramowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Kauen Schanzen, Stutthof, Lublin and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Riva Abramowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Kauen Schanzen, Stutthof, Lublin and other places Life in Kaunas under Soviet occupation, until 1940; German Army occupation of Kaunas, 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, 1941; Kaunas Ghetto life including labor, 1941-1942; [murder of her] brother, apparently in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas; deportation to Kauen Schanzen camp; camp life including labor collecting beer bottles, 1944; transfer to Stutthof, 1944; camp life including forced labor; death march; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Work in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Tova Gita (Iting) Himelfarb, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Siauliai, Okmian, Stutthof, in hiding and in Lodz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Tova Gita (Iting) Himelfarb, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Siauliai, Okmian, Stutthof, in hiding and in Lodz and other places Life in Siauliai including attending a Hebrew school. German Army occupation of Siauliai, 1941; murder of men in killing pits, including her father; deportation to the Siauliai Ghetto; labor in an agricultural farm; receives a work certificate for her brother who was 10 years old; deportation to Okmian camp; "Aktion" against children in the camp; murder of children; hides her sister during the "Aktion"; move back to the Siauliai...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Zvi Mariansky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1940, regarding his experiences in escaping from the Vilna Ghetto and joining a group of partisans in Grodno

Testimony

Testimony of Zvi Mariansky, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1940, regarding his experiences in escaping from the Vilna Ghetto and joining a group of partisans in Grodno His father is a physician, his mother is a musician; being smuggled across the border to Lithuania, 1940; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; labor of his father as a physician in the ghetto; birth of his sister, 1940; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1943; transfer of the family to a hiding place with the help of non-Jews; the family joining Russian partisans in the Grodno area; leaving his baby sister in a convent in Vilna; responsibility of his...

File Number : 13349

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Rudner, born in Oszmiana, Poland, 1928, regarding the extermination of the Oszmiana community and his experiences in camps in Lithuania and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Rudner, born in Oszmiana, Poland, 1928, regarding the extermination of the Oszmiana community and his experiences in camps in Lithuania and other camps Soviet occupation, September 1939; German occupation and murder of 150 Jews; "Aktion" and murder of his father in a killing pit, July 1941; deportation to the Oszmiana Ghetto, September 1941; smuggling food from the villages; "Aktion" of the elderly; liquidation of the ghetto, March 1943; murder of the remnants of the community in Ponary; meeting his sister in Mielegiany camp; infrastructure labor in Ponewesch, Elley-Meiten 1 and Jonishki...

File Number : 13361

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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