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File Number : 2320

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Amfian Gerasimov (Righteous Among the Nations), born in 1903, regarding helping the Jews in the Riga Ghetto, and hiding the Jew Garri Niss in his apartment

Memoirs of Amfian Gerasimov (Righteous Among the Nations), born in 1903, regarding helping the Jews in the Riga Ghetto, and hiding the Jew Garri Niss in his apartment Establishment of the Riga Ghetto; deportation of the Mizrakh and Brill families to the ghetto; help from members of the Gerasimov family to prisoners in the ghetto; the sealing of the ghetto; Jews are ordered to wear a yellow badge; transfer of Jews to forced labor outside the ghetto; passing supplies and items left with neighbors to the Mizrakh and Brill families in the ghetto; loss of contact with the Jews; hiding the Jew Garri Niss in his...

File Number : 2124

Type of Material : Article, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Russian

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