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Documentation regarding Elsa Dannenhirsch who was detained by the Gestapo and murdered, 1942, including a passport, an appeal for her release from detention and an article on the efforts to release her - Passport belonging to Elsa Dannenhirsch, a resident of Tallinn; - Letter to the police from two Estonian friends of Elsa Dannenhirsch appealing for her release on the claim that she is not Jewish and therefore her detention is a mistake; - Newspaper clipping regarding the attempts to rescue Elsa Dannenhirsch from the Gestapo; the article was based on the memories of Aino Villandi, a woman whose aunt,...

File Number : 99

Type of Material : Passport, Article, Letter, Official Documentation

Language : Estonian, Russian

Testimony of Mendel Kramer, born in Vilna, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and in Vaivara, Vivikonna, Narwa and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mendel Kramer, born in Vilna, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and in Vaivara, Vivikonna, Narwa and other places Life before the war; well-to-do, secular family; life until 1939. Outbreak of the war; labor in a "cooperative"; attends the Jewish school, with studies in the Lithuanian language; outbreak of the war [between Germany and the Soviet Union], 1941; German occupation; transfer of his brother to the Gestapo headquarters, and his disappearance; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, No. 1; transfer to the Vilna Ghetto, No. 2; his mother's labor in a...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Part of an activities and situation report of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union, regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in Estonia and Belorussia, 10/1941

Part of an activities and situation report of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union, regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in Estonia and Belorussia, 10/1941 The first part of the "Taetigkeits- und Lagebericht nr. 6. Der Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in der USSR", regarding the activities of the Einsatzgruppen A and Einsatzgruppen B in the Ostland areas (Estonia) and in Belorussia, 01-31/10/1941: Ostland: Combat against the partisans; the situation in Leningrad; Jews; Belorussia: Combat against the partisans; capture and shooting of Communists, functionaries and criminals;...

File Number : 9

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Israel Segal, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Klooga, Ilinurme and Kaiserwald

Testimony

Testimony of Israel Segal, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Klooga, Ilinurme and Kaiserwald Life before the war; work as an actor. German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Klooga; transfer to Ilinurme; camp life including arranging poetry and literature evenings; help from local farmers; transfer to Kaiserwald; liberation.

File Number : 2669

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Abraham Halpern, born in Vilna, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in Narva, Vaivara, Hungenburg, Goldfilz and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Abraham Halpern, born in Vilna, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in Narva, Vaivara, Hungenburg, Goldfilz and other places Deportation to Narva; camp life; transfer to Vaivara; camp life; transfer to Hungenburg; camp life; transfer to Goldfilz; camp life; transfer to Ereda; camp life including hearsay testimony about inmates' escapes.

File Number : 3201

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Mordechai Rosenberg, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Stutthof, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Mordechai Rosenberg, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Stutthof, Buchenwald and other places German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; deportation to Kivioli; transfer to Lagedi; transfer to Narva; transfer to Vaivara; transfer to Sonda; transfer to Stutthof; death march to Buchenwald; liberation, 1945.

File Number : 3085

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Klooga, Lagedi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Klooga, Lagedi and other places Deportation to Vaivara with his brother; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks in a forest; help from an Estonian family; transfer to Kivioli on foot with the approach of the front; labor in a kiosk in Germany; meets Herman Kruk in Lagedi; the hiding of Kruk's diary; evacuation of the camp and murder of some of the inmates in a forest; transfer of the remaining inmates to the prison in Tallinn; transfer to Klooga; Polish inmates and Gypsies in labor camps in...

File Number : 3084

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Golda (Kolesnicki) Gordonowicz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kivioli, Vaivara and Stutthof

Testimony

Testimony of Golda (Kolesnicki) Gordonowicz, born in Vilna, Poland, 1914, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kivioli, Vaivara and Stutthof German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; deportation to Kivioli; transfer to Vaivara; transfer to Stutthof; evacuation via the sea; liberation, 1945.

File Number : 3083

Type of Material : Testimony, Poems/songs

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Arie Leib Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Goldfilz and Klooga

Testimony

Testimony of Arie Leib Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Goldfilz and Klooga Soviet occupation; riots of Lithuanians against Jews; German occupation; life in the Vilna Ghetto including deportations; United Partisan Organization, FPO, combat against the deportation, 01 September 1943; deportation to Goldfilz; camp life including a list of the names of German guards; escape and rescue with help from farmers; life in Klooga camp; liberation. Burial of the dead in a mass grave in Klooga; aliya to Israel, 1948.

File Number : 2733

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish