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Testimony of Gershon Wolocki, born in Vilna, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Hajducziszki and in hiding using a false identity in the Swir area

Testimony

Testimony of Gershon Wolocki, born in Vilna, Poland, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in Hajducziszki and in hiding using a false identity in the Swir area Life in Hajducziszki before the war. The German occupation; escape to a farm; escape to Swir; life in Swir; finding shelter in the home of a Lithuanian family; life in the area on the family's farm; church attendance; name change to Iurek; disguising of herself as a mute by his mother; finding a hiding place at the home of a different Lithuanian family by his mother; end of the war. Reunion with his mother and move to Swir; life in Swir;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Chana Rubin during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Chana Rubin during the Holocaust Chana Rubin, born in Kowno, Lithuania, 1939: Arrest of her father by Lithuanians during the first days of the war; deportation to a ghetto with her mother; children's "Aktion"; entrusting of Chana to a Christian family by her mother, 1944; deportation of her mother to the Stutthof camp, where she perished; end of the war. Removal from the Christian family by a Jewish woman; brought to Lodz by the Jewish woman; joins an Agudath [Israel] kibbutz; move to Germany with the kibbutz; move to the Children's Home in Ulm.

File Number : 363

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Biography, Photograph

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Idel Levitan during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Idel Levitan during the Holocaust Idel Levitan, born in Kowno, Lithuania, 1940: Deportation to the Kowno Ghetto with his parents; entrusted to Christians by his parents; deaths of his parents; end of the war. Removal from the home of the Christians by an aunt; move to Lodz; joins a kibbutz; move to Germany with the kibbutz; arrival at the Children's Home in Ulm.

File Number : 362

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Photograph, Biography, Record of Survivors

Language : English

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...

File Number : 116

Type of Material : Testimony, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Yiddish

Memoirs of Shlema Limyanski, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in hiding with Jewish children among Lithuanians

Memoirs of Shlema Limyanski, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in hiding with Jewish children among Lithuanians Life in the Kaunas Ghetto; transfer to forced labor; cruel attitude towards the Jewish population; hearing a rumor regarding imminent harm to Jewish children; preparation of a plan to save children; escaping with children from the ghetto and finding hiding places with Lithuanians until the end of the war; transfer of the children to the parents who had survived. Included in the file: - newspaper clipping describing the legal proceedings against the Lithuanian activist Metsis...

File Number : 2337

Type of Material : Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings

Language : Russian, Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 1045

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Simon Volve, born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, regarding his experiences and the experiences of his relatives in the Kaunas Ghetto, their escape and hiding in a field, and more

His parents: Frida Arnstein and Chaim Volve. His older sister - Chaya, and his brother - Moshe; Evicted to the Kaunas Ghetto in 1941 and life in the ghetto; hospitalization of his mother Frida, who was burned alive with the rest of the patients and the staff; children's "Aktion" and hiding in the attic with his brother Moshe; his family's escape from the ghetto the day before its liquidation, the arrest of his brother and his return to the ghetto; hiding in the cellar of the barn of Pietras Andriuskevicius, who after his death received the Life Saving Cross from the Lithuanian government; confiscation of the...

File Number : 12177

Type of Material : Poem/song, Article, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German

The memoirs of Jehoshua Shochot regarding his rescue by Domicele Pagojute in Telsiai during the war

The memoirs of Jehoshua Shochot regarding his rescue by Domicele Pagojute in Telsiai during the war The rescue of Jehoshua, his mother Reizl Shochot and his siblings Chaim and Rachel Taic-Zinger with the help of Domicele Pagojute; their hiding in Telsiai from the end of 1941 until liberation in 1944; their stay in the Rainiai and Geruliai camps and the Telsiai ghetto before going into hiding; Included in the file: - Ketubah of Jehoshua and Rina Shochot, drawn up in Vilna in 1961; - diplomas and athletics certificates of Jehoshua Shochot from Lithuania from the years 1951-1960.

File Number : 11546

Type of Material : כתובה, Memoirs, Personal Documents

Language : Lithuanian, English, Russian, Aramaic

Memoirs of Tzila (Musnitzki) Levin, born in Semeliskes, Lithuania in 1933, regarding the experiences of her family members during the Holocaust

Memoirs of Tzila (Musnitzki) Levin, born in Semeliskes, Lithuania in 1933, regarding the experiences of her family members during the Holocaust Memoirs of Tzila Levin edited by Dafna Maor in 2014; Members of her family: her mother, Basl-Batya (Ginzburg); her father, Lazer-Eliezer Musnitzki; the children: Fayvel the oldest, born around 1921-1923, Shlomo born around 1929-1930 and Tzila (Zvia), who at home was called Tsiva'le; - the German occupation; escape of her father and brother Fayvel and their hiding with Lithuanian farmers they knew; the warning of a Lithuanian neighbor about the establishment of...

File Number : 11462

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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