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Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vilna and camps in Estonia

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, 1926, regarding his experiences in Vilna and camps in Estonia Childhood. Life under Soviet rule; deportation to a forced labor camp; returns to the Vilna Ghetto; active in the "Kinder und Jugend Club" [Children and Young People's Club]; member of the editorial staff of the billboard-newspaper "Tzeirim Bayn Hachomot" [Young People Between the Walls]; active in the circle for the Study of the History of the Ghetto led by Herman Kruk, the historian; deportation of his father to a camp in Estonia; life in the Lagedi, Klooga, Kivoli, Auvara, Viikoni and Viavara...

File Number : 6548

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Hillel Seidel, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and Klooga

Testimony

Testimony of Hillel Seidel, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and Klooga German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; deportation to Klooga; camp life including labor making blocks and at a sawmill; contacts with the Estonian underground through an Estonian inmate; underground contacts among the remnants of the fighting organizations from the Vilna Ghetto in the camp; mutual help and cultural activities; obtains a gun and grenades from a Dutch driver; Herman Kruk writes his diary; lethal injections administered to the sick by the German physician, Dr....

File Number : 3088

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Klooga, Lagedi and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Benjamin Anolik, born in Vilna, Poland, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Vaivara, Klooga, Lagedi and other places Deportation to Vaivara with his brother; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks in a forest; help from an Estonian family; transfer to Kivioli on foot with the approach of the front; labor in a kiosk in Germany; meets Herman Kruk in Lagedi; the hiding of Kruk's diary; evacuation of the camp and murder of some of the inmates in a forest; transfer of the remaining inmates to the prison in Tallinn; transfer to Klooga; Polish inmates and Gypsies in labor camps in...

File Number : 3084

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew