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Testimony of Zelda (Komraz) Rosenberg, born in Utena, Lithuania, 1923 regarding her escape to Novosibirsk, USSR

Testimony

Childhood; attends in a Hebrew school, Utena; attends the Hebrew gymnasium, Ukmerge; Life under the Soviet regime, 1940; escapes with her family one day before the German occupation, 1941; escape via Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia; work on a kolkhoz; drafting of her father to the Red Army and his release; move to Novosibirsk; drafting of her brother to the Red Army and his falling in battle at the front, 1943; work in an airplane factory; End of the war and her return with her family to Vilna, Lithuania, 1945; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Pinchas Alter Kurtzbard Kidron, born in Konskie, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ejszyszki and Vilna, until 1940

Testimony

Testimony of Pinchas Alter Kurtzbard Kidron, born in Konskie, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Ejszyszki and Vilna, until 1940 From a traditional family; move to Pulawy; his family owns a vinegar factory; witness attends a Tarbut school; studies to be a teacher in Warsaw; termination of his studies due to illness; Zionist activities in an aliya training group in Lodz. Outbreak of the war; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; escape to the Soviet Union; move to Lithuania; arrest by the police in Ejszyszki; transfer to Vilna; move to Stockholm, March 1940; aircraft flight to the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in Krakow and Warsaw with Jewish institutions and organizations abroad, 12 February 1940-08 February 1942

Correspondence of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) administration in Krakow and Warsaw with Jewish institutions and organizations abroad, 12 February 1940-08 February 1942 - Requests sent by institutions and organizations abroad and personal applications to the JDC administration in Krakow to locate the addresses of Jews in Poland; - Applications from organizations abroad and personal applications to the JDC administration in Krakow requesting relief for individuals; - Requests to receive financial assistance from institutions and organizations abroad and confirmation of receipt of aid; -...

File Number : 5

Type of Material : Letter, Telegram

Language : Slovak, Polish, French, English, German

Testimony of Nachum Meriash, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1910, regarding his experiences in detention, Arkhangelsk and Thshernoe Ozero

Testimony

Testimony of Nachum Meriash, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1910, regarding his experiences in detention, Arkhangelsk and Thshernoe Ozero Zionist activities as part of the Betharia Jewish students’ organization at Kaunas University; completion of his studies; earns his degree as a lawyer, 1936; political activities. Arrest by the Soviets; deportation to Arkhangelsk in the northern Soviet Union as an enemy of the regime, June 1941; life of the deportees en route; transfer to Thshernoe Ozero; camp life with additional Jews for three years; interrogation; transfer to "free settlement" (travel restrictions to a...

File Number : 4030

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Documentation from the Lithuanian Central State Archives, Lithuania, 1916-1941

The Lithuanian Central State Archives (Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas - LCVA) was created during 1918-1990. The LCVA deals with archival documentation, films, photographs and recordings that are a part of the Lithuanian cultural data-base. The history of the Archives can be divided into distinct periods: during Lithuania's independence following World War I; the Nazi occupation of Lithuania; the Soviet regime; and Lithuania's independence from 1991 to the present. The first period encompassed the establishment of the government institutions. During this period, the Constitution was accepted as well as...

Type of Material : Personal Card File, Legal Documentation, Correspondence, Passport, List of Lecturers, List of Teachers, List of Business Owners, Questionnaire, List of Residents, List of Craftspeople, Administrative Documentation, Identity Card, Letter, Card File, List, List of Jewish Pupils, Reports, List of Children, Form, List of Pupils, List of Jews

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Yiddish

Testimony

Testimony of Joseph Rozin, born in 1922 in Kybartai, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, in the ranks of the partisans in the Rodniki forest, and in the Bielski family partisan camp Son of a wealthy Zionist family in Kybartai; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel, including buying a plot of land there; university studies in Kaunas; meeting with Jewish refugees from Germany and Poland; recruiting family members to the ranks of the Lithuanian division of the Red Army; the outbreak of war; the Soviet occupation; deportation of the rich and of Zionists to Siberia; elimination of Hebrew culture...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew