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Memoirs of Anatol Krakowski regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and as a partisan in the forests

Memoirs of Anatol Krakowski regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kailis and as a partisan in the forests Life in the Vilna Ghetto; life in Kailis until September 1943; escape from the ghetto; life as a partisan in the surrounding forests under the command of Abba Kovner; rescue of Jewish partisans arrested by the NKVD by Professor Rebelski after the liberation of Vilna; establishment of an orphanage in Vilna by Professor Rebelski, a senior physician in the Red Army. Also in the file: Introduction written by Anatol Krakowski's wife, Nahama Krakowski, including translations from French to Hebrew...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 8193

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : French

P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954

P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954 Shmaryahu Kaczerginski was born in Vilna in 1908. From a very young age, he started to write and publish poetry and stories. Kaczerginski was one of the founders and activists in "Young Vilna", a group of young Yiddish poets in Vilna, and he was also active in the Communist movement. Even when he was a young man, some of his poems were adopted by the Jews of Vilna and Poland, and these poems became the folk songs sung by many of the Jews. In 1942, after about a year of hiding from the Germans, Kaczerginski returned to...

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Poems/songs, Diary, Testimony, Musical Notes, Letter, Play(s), Script(s), Research Article

results.listIds.lang : Russian, Yiddish

"Overview from the Diaspora" by K. Klausner regarding the condition of the Jews in the eastern European countries and concerning welfare methods required for their rescue, dated 27 January 1944

"Overview from the Diaspora" by K. Klausner regarding the condition of the Jews in the eastern European countries and concerning welfare methods required for their rescue, dated 27 January 1944 Condition of the Jews still alive in hiding places, on the Aryan side, in the forests with the partisans, in labor camps and in concentration camps; efforts to rescue them concentrate on secretly crossing the border to Romania, Slovakia and Hungary with Christians in exchange for money; the problems in caring for those rescued from a medical point of view and the large expenses involved in doing so; sources for the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 26

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Survey Report

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

Testimony of Rozen regarding the life of Edek Boraks and his activities in the Jewish underground in the Warsaw, Vilna and Bialystok Ghettos during the German occupation of Poland, dated 20 February 1945 Activities of Edek Boraks in the underground organizations in Vilna before 1941; attempts to establish an underground after the occupation of Vilna by the Germans; help to the Jews in the ghetto; rescue attempts and smuggling of people to the Aryan side; work as a courier between the ghetto and the Aryan side; cooperation with Haike Grossman and Abba Kovner; attempts to establish a resistance movement in the...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 332

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Testimony

results.listIds.lang : Polish

דיסקל

results.listIds.fileNumber : 12589

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Newspaper Clippings, Article, Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

קנת

results.listIds.fileNumber : 12587

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Memoirs

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew

יומן וזיכרונות של Lejb Koryski יליד Wilno 1913, התכתבותו עם בני משפחה וחברים ותיעוד הנוגע לפעילותו למען הנצחת יהודי Wilno

results.listIds.fileNumber : 12364

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Certification, Newspaper, Poems/songs, Newspaper Clippings, Diary, Speech, Envelope, Postcard, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Article, Letter, Correspondence, Album

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Russian, Yiddish

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe - the British Consul Robert Smallbones and the Deputy Consul Arthur Dowden in Frankfurt—after Kristallnacht, he issued provisional visas to the UK in 1938–1939, thus rescuing approx. 48,000 Jews; - the Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho in Vienna, who saved Jews after Austria was annexed in 1938 by issuing visas to Shanghai; information is available at the Yad Vashem site and on Wikipedia; - George Ferdinand Duckwitz (a German diplomat in Denmark): after he discovered plans to deport the Jews of Denmark to concentration camps in...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 414

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Article

results.listIds.lang : English

Articles related to Abba Kovner, published in the "HaTzofe" newspaper in 1984 and 1994, and personal documentation related to Shlomo Brandt from 1945-1995 - Article, "The underground that didn't shoot", published in the "Erev Shabbat" newspaper on 25/05/1984, regarding the public storm concerning the subject of the failures in the Vilna Ghetto during the Holocaust; in the article the name of Shlomo Brandt is mentioned, a much-storied commander in the partisans; - Article published in the "HaTzofe" newspaper on 22/07/1994, following the publication of the new book by Amala Einat, "Shameful Defamation". The...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 206

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Certification, Personal Records, Article, Newspaper Clippings, Diploma, Personal Documents

results.listIds.lang : Hebrew, Russian

Diaries of the Holocaust survivor Rivka Gurevitz née Eidlitsch (b. 1924 in Wilno, Poland), for the years 1944–1948 and 1959–1977

Diaries of the Holocaust survivor Rivka Gurevitz née Eidlitsch (b. 1924 in Wilno, Poland), for the years 1944–1948 and 1959–1977. The diarist took part in the Wilno ghetto uprising after having fled to the forests and joining a Belarusian partisan group under the alias Rita Napoleon. Her parents and sisters were murdered, apparently in Ponar. In the first diary (six notebooks—April 1944–March 1948), Rivka described her doings in the resistance after the liberation in Wilno, to which she returned at the end of the war and where she stayed until aliya in 1958. In the second diary (January 1959–July 1977), she...

results.listIds.fileNumber : 9918

results.listIds.typeOfMaterial : Diary

results.listIds.lang : Yiddish

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