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Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959

Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959 This file contains: Publication under the title "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, inter alia testimonials, witness reports, articles, drawings, photographs, edited by M. Segalson in Tel Aviv; the publication gives a historical summary and description of the persecution, torture and murder of Lithuanian Jewry, carried out by the German occupation forces and their...

File Number : 3362

Type of Material : Document(s), Newspaper Clippings, Reports, Documentary, Photocopy, Memoirs, Drawing, List of Nazi War Criminals, Photograph, Excerpt(s), Testimony, List of Perpetrators

Language : German

Testimony of Frida (Rubinchik) Erez, born in Minsk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Frida (Rubinchik) Erez, born in Minsk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and a death march Her childhood and youth in Klaipeda; family background; community life; move to Kaunas after the annexation to Germany, 1939; studies nursing course in "Bikur Holim". German occupation, June 1941; pogrom by Lithuanians; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; labor in a hospital for infectious diseases that was established inside the ghetto; ghetto's hospital, patients and staff are set on fire during the liquidation of the small Kaunas Ghetto,...

File Number : 10223

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Leib Koniuchovski, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, underground activities and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Leib Koniuchovski, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, underground activities and in hiding Life in the Kaunas Ghetto; establishment of an underground cell of young people from progressive circles and left-wing outlooks; joins the underground as a resistance movement without party affiliation; the Eliusha Shmuelov incident; murder at the Ninth Fort; termination of underground activities; meetings with Chaim Yellin; Yellin’s activities including rescuing Jews; contact between members of the Logging Brigade in the Janow forests with partisans and others to obtain weapons and...

File Number : 4110

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Excerpts from the memoirs of Esther Lurie regarding her experiences during the Holocaust, and documentation related to her artistic activities during the Holocaust

- Excerpts from the memoirs of Esther Lurie regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stutthof camp during the Holocaust, and her efforts to document reality in her paintings; - Documentation regarding the publication of an album of paintings of the Kaunas Ghetto, "Living Testimony", 1958; - Documentation regarding the production of a documentary film, "Living Testimony", dedicated to the artistic activities of Esther Lurie in the Kaunas Ghetto; - Documentation regarding the Eichmann Trial; - Documentation regarding the Kaunas Ghetto and prominent figures in the life of the Kaunas Ghetto...

File Number : 7

Type of Material : Financial Records, Draft, Correspondence, Note, Article, Memoirs

Language : Italian, Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Russian, German

Testimony of Chana (maiden name: Zimon) Rokhman, born in 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas and in the Slobodka Ghetto.

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (maiden name: Zimon) Rokhman, born in 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas and in the Slobodka Ghetto. Childhood in Klaipeda in a traditional home; manifestations of antisemitism before the war; attending a German school; the German occupation in 1939; escape to Kovno; attending a Jewish school; participation in the "Hashomer Hatzair" movement; Soviet regime from 1940; German occupation in 1941; her family’s arrest by Lithuanians; released with her mother, brother and sister three weeks later; the deportation of her father and her nine-year-old younger...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew