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Joint testimony of Berl Krengelis, born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, 1906 and Esther Krengelis, regarding their experiences in Pilviskai, the Kaunas Ghetto, and using a false identity in Insternburg and Wilkenthal Life before the war; life in Klaipeda; move to Pilviskai, 1939. German occupation, 23 June 1941; transfer of the local administration to the Lithuanians; Lithuanian leadership led by Bridzius Vasilius (Lithuanian police) and Vasilius; restrictions on the Jews; deportation of Jews to forced labor; looting of property, money and jewelry from Jews; abuse of Jews; establishment of the Judenrat; yellow...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 156

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : List of Murdered Persons, Testimony, Letter

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Testimony of Motl Kuricki, born in Anyksciai, Lithuania, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto, the Anyksciai Ghetto, the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof and Mueldorf

Testimony of Motl Kuricki, born in Anyksciai, Lithuania, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto, the Anyksciai Ghetto, the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof and Mueldorf Life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; Jewish youths join the Communist youth; German occupation; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Rokiskis; restrictions on the Jews; arrest of Jews, 28-29 June 1941; transfer of the Jews to a prison and synagogue; murder of Jews by Lithuanian perpetrators; rape of women; yellow badge; abuse of Jews; murder of men, 05 July 1941; escape from the killing pit and hidden in a Lithuanian...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 116

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : List of Murdered Persons, Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

Testimony of Moshe Rozenblum, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding the Kaunas Ghetto

Testimony of Moshe Rozenblum, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1940, regarding the Kaunas Ghetto Family background; outbreak of war; German invasion; threats against his father and his capture by the Germans; establishment of a ghetto in August 1941; obligation to wear a yellow badge; first “Aktion” on 28 October 1941; murder of many Jews in the ghetto; selection by Rauhe; they are miraculously saved; crowding; fear; silence; expected “Aktion” against children; help from Russian and Lithuanian friends; move at night to a Lithuanian family; separation from his mother; constant fear; his parents escape to a...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Russian

Testimony of Mikhaela As, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1941, regarding the experiences of her family in the Kaunas Ghetto and her smuggling out of the ghetto to a hiding place with a Christian family

Family background; German invasion of Kaunas in July 1941; yellow badge; ban against walking on the sidewalk; entry into the ghetto into the apartment of the family, which was switched for the apartment outside the ghetto; her uncle is a policeman in the Jewish police; the large “Aktion” in October 1941; the Ninth Fort; diet of milk substitutes stolen from possessions of prisoners who had been murdered; liquidation of the small ghetto; crowding in the room where they lived; hospitalization of her father; removal of her father from the hospital following information regarding a plan to burn down the hospital;...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Memoirs of Norman Nachum, born on March 22, 1905, in Łódź, and of Channa Anne Milner née Veller, born on January 13, 1909, in Kaunas, about their experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas ghetto, the Kaufering I and Malken camps, death marches, staying in the Eschwege displaced persons camp, and emigration to Canada Memoirs of Norman Nachum: Life in Kaunas; the Germans enter Kaunas in June 1941; murder of Jews by Lithuanians, deportation of Nachum, his wife Channa née Veller, his son Abraham, and their family members to the ghetto in town; anti-Jewish legislation, wearing a badge of shame; confiscation of Jewish...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 10737

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : English

Memoirs of Vytautas Rimkevicius, born in Radviliškis, Lithuania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Krakės Ghetto

Memoirs of Vytautas Rimkevicius, born in Radviliškis, Lithuania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Krakės Ghetto Life in Krakės; activities of collaborators against the Jews; imposition of limitations on the Jews, including wearing the Yellow Badge; establishment of the ghetto; deportation to the ghetto with the Jews; deportation of the Jews of Dotnuva to the Krakės Ghetto; murder of the Krakės Jews in the area by Lithuanian collaborators, August 1941; robbery of Jewish houses in the ghetto by Lithuanian collaborators; destruction of the houses of the Jews in the ghetto. The memoirs were handwritten...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 9778

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs, Documentary

results.listIds.lang : Lithuanian, Polish, English

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