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Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Drafts of lectures regarding Jews in various countries in Europe and North Africa

Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Drafts of lectures regarding Jews in various countries in Europe and North Africa The file is divided into three volumes: Volume I The Jews of Western and Central Europe: the Netherlands; France; Belgium; Luxembourg; Austria and Czechoslovakia Volume II The Jews of Northern Europe: Denmark, Sweden and Norway; the Jews of Eastern Europe: Poland, the Soviet Union and the Baltic States. Volume III The Jews of North Africa: Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria; the Jews of Southeastern Europe: Hungary, Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania.

File Number : 18

Type of Material : Article

Language : Hebrew

Official documentation from US diplomatic representations in Europe and from the Vaad Hahatzala (Rescue Committee of United States Orthodox Rabbis) in New York to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Washington regarding the situation and extermination of Lithuanian Jews, June-November 1944 Pages 1-7: Report from the US legation in Stockholm including an English translation of an article published in Sweden regarding the situation of Lithuanian Jews under Soviet rule and in independent Lithuania, and their extermination by the German Army, 29 June 1944; Page 8: Request, in the name of Rabbi Isaac Sternbuch in...

File Number : 90

Type of Material : Telegram, Official Documentation, Survey Report, Statistical Data

Language : English

Calendar published in Kaunas for the benefit of a Jewish children's home, for the years 1939-1940

Calendar published in Kaunas for the benefit of a Jewish children's home, for the years 1939-1940 Stamp bearing the name of Dr. Suderskys is stamped on the front cover; the calendar includes addresses in Kaunas of factories, banks, business owners and more.

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Calendar

Language : Yiddish

Documentation regarding the murder of Jews in Utena including a document of G. Bekeris, a list of war criminals from the Lithuanian police, a document of the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) and more - Document belonging to G. Bekeris regarding the murder of Jews in Utena, 1941; - List of war criminals from the Lithuanian police; - List of people who perished in various location in the Utena area; - Document of the ChGK.

File Number : 12

Type of Material : List

Language : Russian

Secret report prepared by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and Belorussia, 1941

Secret report prepared by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and Belorussia, 1941 Translation to English of the report, which describes the situation of the Jews in the Baltic States and Belorussia before the German occupation and at present, including numerical statistics; the organizations that dealt in the murder of the Jews, including local residents and the Selbstschutz (self-defense) organization; ghettos; Included in the file: Two versions of a map, on which the number of people who were murdered in the various areas is indicated; on one of the maps,...

File Number : 2

Type of Material : Map, Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : English, German

Report by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and in Belorussia, Part III, 1941

Report by Einsatzgruppe A, regarding the status of the Final Solution in the Baltic States and in Belorussia, Part III, 1941 Status of the Jews in the Baltic States and in Belorussia, before the German occupation; status of the Jews [during the writing of the report], including numerical data; organizations that dealt with the murder of the Jews, including local residents and Selbstschutz self-defense [units]; mention of the ghettos; Comments: - The last page and maps are missing; - Translation to English can be found in file O.18/2; The document is part of the Evidence material at the Nuremberg...

File Number : 126

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Hirsh Milstein regarding the lives of Jews in Subacius and their fate during the German occupation

- Detailed description of Jewish life in Subacius before the rise to power of the Nazis; Subacius was centrally located on the railway line; names of rabbis, public figures and dealers in Subacius; burning of the synagogue; German occupation; violence by Lithuanian nationalists; order to gather at the Beit Midrash; the ghetto was established around the Beit Midrash; forced digging of pits and mass murder into the pits; list of survivors; rescue stories; Wolf Kashnir tried to remain in the town with his three children but eventually had to flee from Lithuanian partisans; sense of mourning due to the destruction...

File Number : 1271

Type of Material : List of Survivors, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

List of Jewish buildings, synagogues, graveyards, and graves of victims of the Holocaust, mapped in the territory of the Lithuanian SSR, published by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Lithuanian SSR

List of Jewish buildings, synagogues, graveyards, and graves of victims of the Holocaust, mapped in the territory of the Lithuanian SSR, published by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Lithuanian SSR The list, sorted by rayons, was published with a map in Lithuanian. Also in the file: handwritten translation and some notes in Russian.

File Number : 972

Type of Material : Article(s), List(s), Text(s), List, Map

Language : Lithuanian, Russian

Miriam Kolpe's story

Miriam Kolpe's story The story of Miriam Kolpe, a teacher at school in Kovno who was murdered together with her students when she refused to abandon them. The story was related by her niece Ester Riter-Kolpe. Photography of the family.

File Number : 10500

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

The Holocaust of the Jews of Latvia

The Holocaust of the Jews of Latvia. Student's paper.

File Number : 301

Type of Material : Research Article

Language : Hebrew

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