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Testimony of Mania (Galperin) Eshkolot, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, and a camp in the Baltic Sea area

Testimony

Testimony of Mania (Galperin) Eshkolot, born in Kaunas, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, and a camp in the Baltic Sea area Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; her father’s work as a bookkeeper in a factory; German occupation, 1941; murder of her father and brother; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life including labor cleaning officers' houses; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches; transfer to the Baltic Sea area; life in a sawmill and labor digging trenches; death march to Lodz;...

File Number : 12339

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Azriel Levi, born in Skaudvile, Lithuania on 08/06/1923, regarding his experiences in Lithuania during the war

Memoirs of Azriel Levi, born in Skaudvile, Lithuania on 08/06/1923, regarding his experiences in Lithuania during the war His childhood in Skaudvile; his family moves to Kaunas in 1938; Soviet rule; expropriation of his family's apartment and the family members return to Skaudvile; establishment of an underground organization, known later as the "Brit Zion" organization (A. B. Z.) in Kaunas; Nazi occupation on 22/06/1941; news regarding the murder of his family members in Skaudvile; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, and the "Aktions"; activities by the A. B. Z.; departure to the Augustovo forest;...

File Number : 6065

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Poem titled, "The Sicarii with the Yellow Badge" by Schraga Aharonowitz, z"l, member of the underground "Brith Zion Organization" in the Kaunas Ghetto, delivered by Nechama (Kaufmann) Baruchson, from the Immigrants Battalion (detachment?) in the Brith Zion Organization, Lublin, March 1945

File Number : 57

Type of Material : Poem/song

Language : Hebrew

Almanac of the "Maapilim" (Illegal Aliya) Battalion from the Brit Zion Organization (A. B. C) in Lithuania containing information regarding the experiences of the Youth Battalion in the Kaunas Ghetto, 1942-1944

File Number : 54

Type of Material : Diary

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Masha (Gail) Yaron, born in Veisiejai, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in a Lithuanian village

Testimony

Testimony of Masha (Gail) Yaron, born in Veisiejai, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in a Lithuanian village Activity in Hanoar Hatzioni movement helping Jewish refugees from Poland until 1941; deportation to Kaunas Ghetto in Slobodka; activity in underground Brit Zion organization until 1943; escape from ghetto to Waitkabalai, 1943; working for farmers until 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Kaunas; activity on behalf of aliya of Jews from Lithuania via Poland and Romania; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945

File Number : 10110

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Esther (Gail) Spektor, born in Veisiejai, 1927, regarding her experiences in Veisiejai, the Kaunas Ghetto, the Slobodka Ghetto, her escape and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Esther (Gail) Spektor, born in Veisiejai, 1927, regarding her experiences in Veisiejai, the Kaunas Ghetto, the Slobodka Ghetto, her escape and in hiding Well-to-do Zionist family, active Zionists in Veisiejai next to Kaunas; death of her mother, 1937; aliya of her older brother to Eretz Israel, 1935. Absorption of refugees in their house, 1935; operation of forgery equipment to create transit documents to Turkey; oppressive Soviet rule; exiles to Siberia; closure of Hebrew schools; entry of the Germans and the family's escape, 1941; air-raids on the train; capture of the family by...

File Number : 9159

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shmuel Ben-Menachem, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, membership in the ABC organization, exit from the ghetto and partisan activities

Testimony

Testimony of Shmuel Ben-Menachem, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, membership in the ABC organization, exit from the ghetto and partisan activities Family life; his parents' origins; education at home; learns in a yeshiva. Soviet occupation, 1939; restrictions on religious activities; vocational school and apprenticeship with a shoemaker; displays of antisemitism; German occupation, June 1941; the Slobodka Ghetto; Lithuanian pogrom against the Jews, October 1941; murder of his parents; witness' two younger brothers remain alive; ghetto life; labor digging;...

File Number : 7622

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps

Testimony

Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps Family life in Danzig; move of the family to Kaunas, 1938. Life under Soviet rule until German occupation, June 1941; concentration of the Jews by Lithuanian gendarmes in Slobodka; release of the family; mass shooting of Jews in Slobodka; detention of the family in the Kaunas prison, July 1941; murder of his mother with other women in a forest; sealing of the ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life; "Aktion", October 1941; membership in the Brit Zion youth movement; conversion...

File Number : 6415

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew