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Memoirs of Tanya (Shuchmacher) Uzenkel, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences in the ghetto, in a camp, in hiding in Proskurov and in the Stanislavchik Ghetto

Memoirs of Tanya (Shuchmacher) Uzenkel, born in Proskurov, Ukraine, 1925, regarding her experiences in the ghetto, in a camp, in hiding in Proskurov and in the Stanislavchik Ghetto Life in Proskurov at the time of the outbreak of the war; deportation to the Proskurov Ghetto; deportation to forced labor at the military headquarters in Leznevo; liquidation of the ghetto and murder of the Jews with the exception of the professionally skilled workers (among them, her mother, who was a seamstress); deportation of the family to the local camp; "Aktion" and being hidden with her family in the cellar in the home of...

File Number : 8631

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990

Documentation regarding the experiences of the Jewish community in Dubossary during World War II; documents dated, 1988-1990 Included in the file: - List of residents of Dubossary and the Dubossary vicinity who were murdered by the Nazis, 1941; list prepared by the team established to help the restoration of the gravestone in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Dubossary; - List of residents of Dubossary who participated in the mass murders of the local Jews; investigation reports regarding the war crimes perpetrated by Nazi war criminals and their collaborators; testimony of Nikolay Khvorostyan,...

File Number : 1448

Type of Material : Investigation Reports, List of Collaborators, Newspaper Clippings, Official Documentation, Poems/songs, Testimony, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Russian

Postcard from Jankelis Mileris (Yaakov Miler) of Aukstadvaris to his daughter Osnat Miler in Eretz Israel, 30 May 1941; letters from Holocaust survivor Jacob Sapirstein in Italy; "Megillat HaShmada" (Scroll of Destruction) including the names of the Jews from Aukstadvaris that perished in the Holocaust, 1946 - Translation of the postcard into Hebrew; - Jacob Sapirstein's letters including the experiences of the [Jews] from Aukstadvaris and an attempt to [locate?] those who were originally from Aukstadvaris in Eretz Israel and in the Diaspora in order to establish a memorial to those who perished from the...

File Number : 1946

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Letter of Testimony, List of Murdered Jews

Language : Hebrew, Yiddish

Letter by Ye. Gekhman, regarding the extermination of the Jews of Riga during the German occupation

Letter by Ye. Gekhman, regarding the extermination of the Jews of Riga during the German occupation German Army occupation of Riga, 01/07/1941; abuse of Jews on the streets of Riga; assembly of Jews in the synagogues, prayers from the windows, and shooting; burning of synagogues with the Jews inside; resistance by Jews from the first days of the occupation: an activist named Abel shot two Germans; Elkitnek, the school principal, fell with a weapon in his hands; Mrs. Ganshteyn was murdered en route to the synagogue after she condemned the Germans; a student named Abram Epshteyn organized a group of young Jews...

File Number : 60

Type of Material : Letter, Names

Language : Russian

Poem written in rhyme by an anonymous author, including the fictional memoirs of a child, titled, "The Children of the War"

Poem written in rhyme by an anonymous author, including the fictional memoirs of a child, titled, "The Children of the War" The poem deals with the escape of a Jewish boy from a killing pit in Monastyrishche, 1942, his wanderings in the Uman area, in Berestovets and in other villages while using a false identity, and his receiving help from local farmers; The anonymous author wrote a fictional story, according to which he escaped from an orphanage in Sumy.

File Number : 270

Type of Material : Memoirs, Poem/song

Language : Russian, Ukrainian

Testimony of Malka Stern née Grinberger, born in 1926 in Ganice, Czechoslovakia, about her experiences in Ganice, the Mateszalka ghetto, and the Birkenau and Lübberstedt camps during the war

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; good relations with the non-Jewish population; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; family business license evoked; father deported to a labor camp in 1941; neighbors who lack Hungarian citizenship deported; refugees from Poland arrive; German occupation ensues in March 1944; witness deported to the Mateszalka ghetto; robbed of jewelry; deported to Auschwitz on Shavuot 1944; escapes from a group being transferred in the camp to a crematorium; sent to Lübberstedt in summer 1944; life in the camp; manufacturing bombs; the front closes in and the camp is...

File Number : 13558

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs written by Avraham Balzar in 1946 regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, detention by the Gestapo, in hiding, rescue twice from the killing pit in Ponary, labor digging pits and burning of corpses under Lithuanian supervision Verdict from the trial held in the United States of Aleksandras Lileikis, former head of the Saugumas in Vilna, Lithuanian Security Police, 24 May 1996; translation to German of the testimony of Avraham Blazar submitted to the Soviet authorities in Vilna, 28 August 1944; documents from 1941 of the Saugumas and the German authorities on the fate of Avraham Balzar...

File Number : 8312

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Official Documentation, Testimony, Investigation Report, Sentence

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Testimony of Elisha Roshkin, born in 1936 in Zdzieciol, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Zdzieciol ghetto, in hiding in a bunker, and with the partisans in the forests until 1944

Life before the war; parents belong to the Hashomer Hatzair movement; German occupation ensues in June 1941; establishment of the ghetto; attempts to go into hiding with non-Jewish acquaintances; Aktion and murder of grandparents and sister in a killing trench; aunt escapes from the trench; building a bunker under the house for seventy people; father's relations with non-Jews and acquisition of weapons from them; father and uncles escape to the forests in March 1942; joining a Soviet partisan unit near the Niemen River; father murdered by a non-Jewsh villager; German manhunts in the forests; sustains a head...

File Number : 13521

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Mikhail Tifbenkel, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine 1934, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto until 1944

Memoirs of Mikhail Tifbenkel, born in Zhmerinka, Ukraine 1934, regarding his experiences in the Zhmerinka Ghetto until 1944 Family life in Zhmerinka before the war. Outbreak of the war; the family's decision not to leave [the house]; robbery of Jewish houses by local residents; pogroms in Brailov, 1942; murder of family members, including his grandmother in Brailov, 1942; life under Romanian rule in Zhmerinka; establishment of the Zhmerinka Ghetto, September 1941; ghetto life including yellow badge; visit of the Red Cross and its help to Jews in the ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police in the...

File Number : 8267

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Map, Letter, Diagram, Orders, Record of Murdered Persons, Drawing, Memoirs

Language : Russian, Yiddish

Testimony of Shmuel Kasher, born in Sarny, Poland in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Sarny Ghetto, in a POW camp in the Sarny area, in hiding in Ozierany, in the Red Army and in other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Kasher, born in Sarny, Poland in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Sarny Ghetto, in a POW camp in the Sarny area, in hiding in Ozierany, in the Red Army and in other places His childhood in Klesow and Sarny; suffering from antisemitism before the war; Soviet occupation, September 1939; nationalization of his family's business; halting of the Zionist activities; escape to Sarny of refugees from the German occupation area; German occupation, June 1941; increase in antisemitism on the part of the Ukrainian population; Judenrat activities; transfer to forced labor; imposition of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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