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Testimony of Zahava Zlata (Tzukerman) Strumza, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding her experiences as a child in Mogilev-Podolski, the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof camp, Kaiserwald camp and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Zahava Zlata (Tzukerman) Strumza, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding her experiences as a child in Mogilev-Podolski, the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof camp, Kaiserwald camp and other places Life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1939; move by train to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski; her father is the manager of a bakery; education; receives a license; move to Vilna, May 1941; German occupation, June 1941; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge and deportation of men to forced labor; her father hides the valuables; Lithuanian cooperation with the Germans; concentration in the...

File Number : 13346

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Michles) Toker, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strazdumuiza, Stutthof and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Michles) Toker, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Strazdumuiza, Stutthof and other places Life in Vilna before the war; education. Soviet occupation, 1939; deportation of family and friends to Siberia; escape of Jews to the Soviet Union; German occupation, June 1941; Lithuanian collaborators; confiscation of valuables and property; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life; murder of Jews at Ponary; "Aktions"; obtains a worker's permit; forced labor; deportation of Jews to Estonia...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Feinstein) Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Feinstein) Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and a death march Life in Vilna before the war; Zionist, traditional family; witness attends Jewish schools; meets Jewish deportees from Germany; help by the Jewish community to the refugees. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer of Vilna to Lithuanian rule; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; air-raids; anti-Jewish restrictions including the yellow badge; termination of studies; forced labor; deportation to the Vilna...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tuvia Bromberg, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans

Testimony

Testimony of Tuvia Bromberg, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans Son of grain merchants; large family; education in the Hebrew school “Toshia”. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, 1939; exile of capitalists to the Soviet Union; blood libels against the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; closure of his father's business; restrictions on Jews; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, late July 1941; ghetto life; escape to former Polish Army barracks; labor in a German Army weapons factory; smuggles gun parts to the partisans; deportation of Jews by the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meir Svirsky, born in Vilna, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Meir Svirsky, born in Vilna, 1934, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and in hiding Life before the war; attends a kindergarten; move to Lodz. Outbreak of the war; his father’s work as a soap supplier; return to Vilna; his uncle disguises himself as a priest; German occupation; deportation to the Vilna ghetto; ghetto life; deportation of his father to a labor camp; ghetto life including his mother's labor as a seamstress and the murder of his grandfather; life in hiding; approach of the Red Army to Vilna; liberation. Return home; meets a Red Army unit; move to...

File Number : 12266

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Elena Chaviva Luksemberg, born in Panevezys (Lithuania), Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and hidden by a Polish family on the Aryan side

Testimony

Testimony of Elena Chaviva Luksemberg, born in Panevezys, (Lithuania) Poland, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and hidden by a Polish family on the Aryan side From a well-to-do family; Zionist education and learns Hebrew; move to Vilna; continuation of her high school education. German occupation, June 1941; escape to Smolensk; return to Vilna; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; ghetto life including her sister's wedding and labor in a pharmaceutical factory; evades "Aktions"; rescue from an "Aktion" on Yom Kippur with help from Yaakov Gans, commander of the Jewish police; rescue from an...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Detention orders and lists of detainees sent by the Vilna Ghetto police to the detention house in the ghetto, 06/1943

Detention orders and lists of detainees sent by the Vilna Ghetto police to the detention house in the ghetto, 06/1943 The file includes mainly detention orders for individual detainees, some of them signed by Jacob Gens, the head of the Jewish police; the file includes several lists, with names that apparently relate to the detainees.

File Number : JM/17153

Type of Material : List of Ghetto Inmates, Official Documentation

Language : German, Yiddish

22 songs by Abraham Zipkin, Avraham Axelrad and other authors sung by Jews in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaunas Ghetto and ghettos in the area

22 songs by Abraham Zipkin, Avraham Axelrad and other authors sung by Jews in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaunas Ghetto and ghettos in the area 1. "Airport Song", about forced labor of inmates without food, in the cold, illnesses, hunger and hopelessness; the author calls on the inmates to be strong and not give in because the suffering and forced labor will come to an end some day; 2. "In the Gate of the Ghetto", by Avraham Axelrad, about smuggling food through the gate of the ghetto, the police inspection, discovery of the food saved up by the Jews who worked outside the ghetto; 3. "Hunger Does Not Help",...

File Number : 327

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Chaim Lewin Kowaliszki, born in 1924 in Lithuania, about his internment in the Lida ghetto, escape to Wilno, doing odd jobs, and detention at Gestapo headquarters

Individuals: Ribbentrop, Molotov, Lichtman Kalman, Tuvoa Bielski, Jacob Gens, Wittenberg Topics: the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the Death Head

File Number : 11871

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

English translation of the play, "Zvishen Fallendikeh Vahnt (Between Crumbling Walls)", presented in Paris, 1948

English translation of the play, "Zvishen Fallendikeh Vahnt (Between Crumbling Walls)", presented in Paris, 1948 A tragedy in three acts and seven scenes regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Vilna Ghetto including the arrest of Yitzhak Wittenberg in the Vilna Ghetto, 16-17 July 1943; the actors portrayed the members of the underground FPO (United Partisan Organization), as well as Jacob Gens, Yitzhak Wittenberg, Abba Kovner and Sonia Madisker.

File Number : 5

Language : English

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