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"Sovetskaya Latviya" (Soviet Latvia), an article published in a newspaper, regarding the oppression and liquidation of the local population in Riga

"Sovetskaya Latviya" (Soviet Latvia), an article published in a newspaper, regarding the oppression and liquidation of the local population in Riga Deportation of the Latvian residents to forced labor in Germany; forceful drafting of Latvian residents to the Latvian Legion; burning of Jews alive in the synagogue in Riga; murder of Jews in the Riga Ghetto; murder of inmates of the Riga prison in the Bikernieki forest; deaths of Soviet POWs in camps due to the living conditions and starvation.

File Number : 280

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Article published in a Soviet newspaper regarding the murder of Jews, POWS and local residents in Slutsk

Article published in a Soviet newspaper regarding the murder of Jews, POWS and local residents in Slutsk The article, by Yevgeniy Dolmatovskiy, the author, was apparently written immediately after the liberation of the city of Slutsk; the whole city was turned into one big cemetery; the city was burned, only new villas built during the German occupation remained; for the building of the villas, they used tombstones from the local cemetery; mass grave of Soviet POWs, some of whom died in the camp and some of whom were murdered; also buried there are local residents; Dolmatovskiy mentions some of the names of...

File Number : 276

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian

Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family

Testimony of a Jewish girl regarding the early days of the occupation of Bialystok, mass murders of Jews and her trip to Bielsko and back to the Bialystok Ghetto with her family Memories of an unknown eight year old Jewish girl after the German occupation of Bialystok in June 1941; mass arrests of Jewish men; release of her father from detention; entry of the Germans into the courtyard of their building a short time afterwards; taking of the men by the Germans and random shooting of whomever they found in the building; taking of her baby sister and her sibling(s) by the writer and escaping to her...

File Number : 233

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Polish

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg, regarding the murder of Jews in the town of Kolbasino and in the village of Knyazhevodtsy (the signature of the letter's author is unclear)

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg, regarding the murder of Jews in the town of Kolbasino and in the village of Knyazhevodtsy (the signature of the letter's author is unclear) The writer sends Ilya Ehrenburg a calendar for 1944 that was printed in Belorussia during the period of the Nazi rule, which includes Nazi propaganda; (the calendar is not in the file); The writer tells about the murder of local residents in the village of Knyazhevodtsy in a trench, during summer 1943, and he points out that all of the Jewish residents of Knyazhevodtsy had been murdered already; murder of Jews in a factory in the town of...

File Number : 230

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter of testimony written by Genia Messing in Rohatyn, 1943, regarding the murders in Rohatyn after the German occupation

Letter of testimony written by Genia Messing in Rohatyn, 1943, regarding the murders in Rohatyn after the German occupation The letter was entrusted to Poles to be forwarded to the Messing family, in the event that Genia Messing did not survive

File Number : 8214

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Shlomo Golibroda, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Pultusk, the Warsaw Ghetto, Bialystok, Siberia and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shlomo Golibroda, born in Pultusk, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Pultusk, the Warsaw Ghetto, Bialystok, Siberia and other places Life in Pultusk before the war; Orthodox, religious family; displays of antisemitism; activities in the Poalei Agudat Israel movement; harassment by Endeks people (members of the Narodowa Demokracja party). Outbreak of the war; meets Jewish refugees from Austria and Czechoslovakia; shelling of Pultusk; transfer to forced labor; escape to the border of the Soviet Union; capture; escape to Warsaw; smuggle of food into the Warsaw Ghetto; escape to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Joseph Zozula regarding his experiences as a child in Dovzhanka and Auschwitz

Memoirs of Joseph Zozula regarding his experiences as a child in Dovzhanka and Auschwitz German occupation of his childhood village; hunger; confiscation of food and property and stay of the family in a cowshed; concentration of the older Jews of Dovzhanka in the synagogue and burning them alive; deportation of the remaining Jews and separation from his mother; entry into Auschwitz; murder of his entire family; liberation.

File Number : 51

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Luba Warsavska Drilings, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Kamionka, Annaberg, Neustadt, Gruenberg, a death march and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Luba Warsavska Drilings, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Kamionka, Annaberg, Neustadt, Gruenberg, a death march and other places Religious, well-to-do family; life before the war including displays of antisemitism and the arrrival of refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war, 1939; decrees including confiscation of property and burning of a synagogue; deportation to Kamionka; "Aktion"; finds a hiding place in an attic with her brother; escape; deportation to Annaberg; camp life including labor cleaning; transfer to Neustadt, October 1943; camp life including labor...

File Number : 12728

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

An anonymous testimony of a woman, age 35, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1942

An anonymous testimony of a woman, age 35, regarding her experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto and aliya to Eretz Israel in 1942 German occupation, June 1941; the murder of 500 Jews by burning them alive in a synagogue; kidnappings for forced labor; the establishment of the Bialystok Ghetto, July 1941; deportation to forced labor in a factory; the Jewish Police; the official price list of goods; taxes; the Jewish Council; deportation of 3,000 Jews to Prozany, September 1941; Jewish-Polish relations; ghetto cultural life; fur decree; rumors about the extermination of Jews; aliya to Eretz Israel, November...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimonies gathered by Mikhail Rayak and Girsh Rayak, regarding the experiences of Rakow Jews, 1941-1942

Testimonies gathered by Mikhail Rayak and Girsh Rayak, regarding the experiences of Rakow Jews, 1941-1942 German Army occupation of Rakow, 26 June 1941; deportation of Jews to forced labor; participation of police people in the confiscation of Jewish property; murder of 60 Jews from Rakow, in the Rakow area, August 1941; murder of 14 Jews from Rakow, in Minsk, August 1941; burial of 60 Jews in a mass grave [in Rakow], August 1941; murder of 105 Jews from Rakow, in Buzuny, 29 September 1941; burning of Torah scrolls in the square, 29 September 1941; acts of abuse against the Jews, in the square, 29 September...

File Number : 4076.92

Type of Material : Names of Perpetrators, Names, Memoirs, Testimony, Names of Rescuers

Language : Russian

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