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Testimony of Chana (Shaff Safaite) Brener, born in Skuodas, 1924, regarding her experiences escaping to Russia and Kazakhstan, and joining the Red Army

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (Shaff Safaite) Brener, born in Skuodas, 1924, regarding her experiences escaping to Russia and Kazakhstan, and joining the Red Army Her childhood in Skuodas; Soviet occupation, June 1940; deterioration of economic conditions; German occupation, July 1941; escape in the direction of Russia and joining the Russian retreat; staying in a kolkhoz; escape to Kazakhstan; joining the Lithuanian division of the Red Army, 1942; serving as a nurse in the Red Army until the liberation, 9 May 1945; marriage after being released from the army, August 1945; transfer to Vilna; being informed in 1962...

File Number : 11754

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Nathan Markusovicius Maron, born in Kretinga, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Danzig, Dachau, Landsberg and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Nathan Markusovicius Maron, born in Kretinga, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Danzig, Dachau, Landsberg and other places From a Zionist family in Kretinga; learns in a "heder" and a German high school; his father is a merchant; family members make aliya in 1936; medical studies in France; return to Lithuania; drafted into the army; return to France and work as a physician. German occupation; escape to southern France; return to Lithuania and meetings with relatives in Kaunas; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including labor building an airfield...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tuvia Kagan, born in Taurage, 1919, regarding his experiences under Soviet rule and as a soldier in the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army

Testimony of Tuvia Kagan, born in Taurage, 1919, regarding his experiences under Soviet rule and as a soldier in the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army Service in the Lithuanian Army until World War II. Life under Soviet rule, 1940-1941; escape from Lithuania to the Soviet Union during the Red Army's retreat; drafted to the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army; combat near Alekseyvka.

File Number : 7519

Type of Material : Memoirs, Survey Report

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Yisrael Libenzon, born in Siaulenai, Lithuania, 1897, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Yisrael Libenzon, born in Siaulenai, Lithuania, 1897, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto Life before the war; his father is a grain merchant; drafted into military service, 1923; military life until 1926; life in Kaunas including work in the Bureau of Commerce and Industry until 1940. Life under Soviet occupation; the German occupation; dismissals from work; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including work for the Judenrat; relief organization activities; deportations to Estonia; liberation. Move to Czernowitz; move to Poland; life in Italy including joining the...

File Number : 5252

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation from the Lithuanian Special Archives, Lithuania, 1918-1991

The Lithuanian Special Archives was established within the Lithuanian Archives Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania in 1995. The Lithuanian Special Archives (Lietuvos ypatingasis archyvas) preserves documents of the Soviet Union State Security Committee (KGB) LSSR unit, the LSSR Ministry of the Interior (MIA), the Lithuanian Communist Party (LCP), and LSSR institutions, companies and organizations, 1918-1991. Documents of the military commissariats of the Lithuanian SSR under the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, referring to their activities during 1940–1941 and 1944–1991. -...

Type of Material : List of Names, Card File, Questionnaire, Names of Evacuees, Legal Documentation, List of Jewish Residents, Official Documentation

Language : Lithuanian, Russian

Testimony of Shlomo Stanislow Aronson, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Rowne, Lwow Ghetto, hiding in Warsaw and other places

Testimony of Shlomo Stanislow Aronson, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Rowne, Lwow Ghetto, hiding in Warsaw and other places Childhood in Lodz in a well-to-do family (considered local 'intelligenzia'); Nazi propaganda before the war and its effect; outbreak of the war; escape to Warsaw; life in Warsaw during air raids; declaration of the mayor regarding the exit of the Jews towards the east; escape by way of Luck to a family estate in Rowne; Soviet occupation; attempted escape to Lithuania; capure of the family by the Lithuanian army; deportation of the family back to Poland;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dov Boris Berl Gans, born in Zasle, Lithuania in 1901, regarding his experiences in Jewje, in a prison and in the Vilna Ghetto, and in the Bielski brothers' partisans group

Memoirs of Dov Boris Berl Gans, born in Zasle, Lithuania in 1901, regarding his experiences in Jewje, in a prison and in the Vilna Ghetto, and in the Bielski brothers' partisans group Marriage in Jewje; release from service in the Lithuanian Army in 1922; life in Jewje with his family, in a good economic and social situation; German occupation; murders of Jews; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; his oldest son escapes; another two of his children go into hiding; escape with his wife and their two younger children and a young girl who wasn't from their family; his parents David and Sara remain in...

File Number : 10171

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : 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

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