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Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944

Memoirs of Selma Schebschelowitz, born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920, regarding her experiences in Riga and the Riga Ghetto and the persecution of Latvian Jews, 1941-1944 Selma Schebschelowitz was born in Kuldiga, Latvia, 1920; family background and education; Escape to Riga together with her parents and her sister following the outbreak of the war; German occupation; working in the ruins of the old city, with the prefecture and as a maid for the Waffen-SS 1941; deportation to the Riga Ghetto together with her parents, 1941; escape from the ghetto, November 1941; living in hiding, for two years; escape...

File Number : 1602

Type of Material : Report, List of Jews, List of Murdered Jews, Memoirs, List of Nazi War Criminals, List of Jewish Survivors

Language : German

Lists of suspected Latvian, Lithuanian and German war criminals, prepared, 1947-1949

Lists of suspected Latvian, Lithuanian and German war criminals, prepared, 1947-1949 - Lists of suspected Latvian, Lithuanian and German war criminals, prepared, 1947-1949; lists with Latvian, Lithuanian and German names, including information such as physical characteristics, former profession, sites of the crime, and type of crime; the names derive mainly from testimonies of victims.

File Number : 822

Type of Material : List of Collaborators, Official Documentation, List of Nazi War Criminals

Language : German

List of suspected war criminals wanted for their activities in Latvia, in particular in Riga, 1941-1945; list prepared, 1948

List of suspected war criminals wanted for their activities in Latvia, in particular in Riga, 1941-1945; list prepared, 1948 - List of suspected war criminals wanted for their activities in Latvia, in particular in Riga, during 1941-1945; list prepared, 1948; list of 33 German names including rank; request to provide information about these suspected war criminals to the Federation of Liberated Latvian Jews, 61 Kaiserstrasse, Munich, the US Occupation Zone in Germany.

File Number : 821

Type of Material : List of Nazi War Criminals

Language : German

Documentation from the Muzejs Ebreji Latvijā (Museum "Jews in Latvia")

The Muzejs Ebreji Latvijā (Museum of Latvian Jewry) was established in 1989 by Holocaust survivors and by the well-known historian Margers Vestermanis. The museum collection includes documents and photographs from private archives and family albums encompassing 450 years of Jewish history in Latvia. Memoirs and testimonies from the Nazi occupation period, mostly of Holocaust survivors but also memoirs of rescuers of Jews and their companions, have a special place in the museum collection. Information regarding the Holocaust includes lists of ghettos and inmates; lists of Jews who were murdered; and lists of...

Type of Material : List of Police Officers, Diagram, List of Jewish Survivors, Names, Names of Perpetrators, Diary, Testimony, List of Perpetrators, List, List of Deportees, Memoirs, Record of Persecuted Persons

Language : Hebrew, Russian, German, Yiddish, Latvian