Yad Vashem Collections - Documents

540 Results

Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by journalist P. Korzinkin, regarding the murder of Jews in Dunilovichi

Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by journalist P. Korzinkin, regarding the murder of Jews in Dunilovichi Journalist P. Korzinkin, who is at the front, promises to send additional documentation to Ilya Ehrenburg regarding the Nazi war crimes; according to Korzinkin, with the liberation of Dunilovichi by the Red Army, the Jews returned from the forest and cried near the killing pit in which their relatives had been buried; according to Korzinkin, of the 100 Jews in Dunilovichi, only 50 survived in the forests; some of the murderers were Lithuanian collaborators, and most of them retreated with the German Army.

File Number : 113

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Russian

Letter written by Boris Gurvich from Svenchan regarding the murder of the Jews of Lithuania

Letter written by Boris Gurvich from Svenchan regarding the murder of the Jews of Lithuania Boris Gurvich writes regarding some of the Lithuanian Jews who were evacuated to camps in Estonia where they labored and were murdered, inmates who managed to dig a tunnel from the camp and went free, the Lithuanian collaborators who carried out a pogrom even before the German occupation of Svenchan, the Svenchan Ghetto and the Large "Aktion" in Svenchan, 09 October 1941; the letter was written to Ilya Ehrenburg in Yiddish and translated into Russian.

File Number : 79

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian, Yiddish

Letter of testimony of Yuliya Pilvinskaya regarding the experiences of her husband's family in Kaunas and Perloja, 1941-1944

Letter of testimony of Yuliya Pilvinskaya regarding the experiences of her husband's family in Kaunas and Perloja, 1941-1944 Air-raids on Kaunas, 22 June 1941; escape of Red Army forces from Kaunas during the early days of the war; shooting by local residents at the escaping soldiers; murder of the members of the Pilvinski family in Perloja, 1941; murder of a brother [?] of Pilvinski in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, 1941; pogrom in the Viliampol neighborhood in Kaunas; murder of the neighborhood rabbi; murder of Jewish men in the bus park in Kaunas; murder of women in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas; humiliating orders...

File Number : 8385

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Letters sent to Leah and Rivka Krelitz in Mexico by family members in Yurburg, 1937 - 1941

Letters sent to Leah and Rivka Krelitz in Mexico by family members in Yurburg, 1937 - 1941 Letters sent to Leah and Rivka Krelitz by family members including Moshe, Leibel, Rochel and Feige Krelitz who perished during the Holocaust; the letters focus on the life of Jews in Lithuania before the war including threats on the Jews lives, the possibility to immigrate to Mexico during January 1939 and request for help in April 1939; Murder of Jews [in Yurburg?] by Lithuanian neighbors after the German occupation of Lithuania during June 1941; Hannah Magidovitz, the sole survivor of her family; testimony of...

File Number : 1786

Type of Material : Letter, Testimony, Statistical Report

Language : Spanish, English, Yiddish

Memoirs written by Avraham Balzar in 1946 regarding his experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto, detention by the Gestapo, in hiding, rescue twice from the killing pit in Ponary, labor digging pits and burning of corpses under Lithuanian supervision Verdict from the trial held in the United States of Aleksandras Lileikis, former head of the Saugumas in Vilna, Lithuanian Security Police, 24 May 1996; translation to German of the testimony of Avraham Blazar submitted to the Soviet authorities in Vilna, 28 August 1944; documents from 1941 of the Saugumas and the German authorities on the fate of Avraham Balzar...

File Number : 8312

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Official Documentation, Testimony, Investigation Report, Sentence

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Polish, English, Yiddish

Memoirs of Morris Engelson, born in Podbrodzie, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Podbrodzie, in the Soly Ghetto and in hiding in a forest

Memoirs of Morris Engelson, born in Podbrodzie, Poland, 1935, regarding his experiences as a child in Podbrodzie, in the Soly Ghetto and in hiding in a forest Life in Podbrodzie until late September 1941; escape with his parents during an "Aktion"; escape to the Soly Ghetto; life with his parents while in hiding in a forest.

File Number : 8261

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Testimony of Herman Leber, born in 1925 in Podkamien, Poland, about his experiences in the Pokdamien ghetto and camp, a bunker in the forest, and in the ranks of the Red Army

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional Zionist merchant family; attends a Polish-Russian school, a Jewish school, and a cheder; active in the Bnei Akiva movement; receiving refugees from Poland after war breaks out; Soviet occupation ensues in June 1939; refugees deported to Russia; German occupation ensues in 1941; Germans collaborate with Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans); Jews deported to a ghetto out of town; men taken away for forced labor; 1,500 Jews ronded up in a synagogue that is blown up; men taken away for labor at a quarry near Sasów; prisoners abused by Lithuanian and Ukrainian guards; ghetto...

File Number : 13499

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Documentation regarding Lithuanian collaborators from the Telsiai district, war crimes perpetrated by a gang of Lithuanians from the Varenai area, lists of Lithuanians who served in the police force and more, 1945-1968 - Legal documentation containing investigation reports and verdicts regarding Lithuanian collaborators from the Telsiai district; - Lists of Lithuanians from the Telsiai district who served in the police force during the German occupation; - Documentation regarding war crimes perpetrated by a gang of Lithuanians in the Varenai district.

File Number : 98

Type of Material : List of Collaborators, Legal Documentation, Investigation Report

Language : Russian

List of collaborators active in Dobrush, 07/10/1943

File Number : 3438

Type of Material : List of Collaborators

Language : Russian

Items per page:

1 – 10 of 540