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Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony

Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel Childhood and youth in Vilna. Outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids; occupation of Vilna by the Soviet Army, 1939; life under the Lithuanian regime, 1939; pogrom by Lithuanians against the Jews, 1940; receiving a legal aliya certificate to Eretz Israel from her fiance in Eretz Israel, 1940; attempts to obtain a visa; aliya to Eretz Israel through Haleb, Istanbul, Odessa, Minsk, Moskow and Beirut, 1942. Receiving information regarding the death of her father in...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters sent by family members from Jurburg, Lithuania, to sisters, members of the Zernitski and Krelitz families in the United States, 1937-1941

Letters sent by family members from Jurburg, Lithuania, to sisters, members of the Zernitski and Krelitz families in the United States, 1937-1941 Daily life including the financial situation; receipt of information from the sisters, including the wedding of Leah [one of the sisters]; description of life under the Soviet occupation in the January 1941 letter.

File Number : 687

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

German passport of Feige (Rosenzweig) Beila, born in Kowno, Lithuania, 1902; passport issued in Lithuania, 20 May 1937

German passport of Feige (Rosenzweig) Beila, born in Kowno, Lithuania, 1902; passport issued in Lithuania, 20 May 1937 Included in the file are a plastic envelope, the passport, and photocopies of the passport; The passport's owner Feige (Rosenzweig) Beila was born, 04 January 1902; place of birth and place of residence: Kowno; she is a housewife (Ehefrau); her children are a daughter Rita, born, 09 December 1926 and a son Simon, born, 19 August 1934; The passport was issued by the German Legation in Lithuania (Litauen), 20 May 1937, and is valid until 18 May 1942; The passport has the dates:...

File Number : 327

Type of Material : Passport

Language : Lithuanian, Spanish, Russian, German, Japanese

Documentation of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Upper Austria, Linz, regarding protest by refugee representatives against the recognition of Belorussians, Latvians and Lithuanians as refugees, the discrimination against Jewish refugees, the situation of the Jewish refugees in Upper Austria, and other matters Protest by the refugees' national representatives against the recognition of Belorussians, Latvians and Lithuanians as refugees and the discrimination against Jewish refugees, the situation of the Jewish refugees in Upper Austria, the Anglo-American refugees committee, and the participation...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : Original Document, Official Documentation

Language : German