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Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding Life before the war; traditional, well-to-do, Revisionist family; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his father's factory; pogrom by the Lithuanian Police in summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; his parents receive work cards; Vilna Ghetto life; his father receives information from a German officer at his place of labor regarding approaching "Aktions"'; his family members escape to hiding places in the homes of...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Eynat Aron Zelkind, born in 1934 in Wilno, Lithuania, about his experiences as a boy in the Wilno ghetto and the H.K.P. camp

Testimony

Testimony of Eynat Aron Zelkind, born in 1934 in Wilno, Lithuania, about his experiences as a boy in the Wilno ghetto and the H.K.P. camp Life in the Wilno ghetto from September 1941 to mid-September 1943; deportation to the H.K.P. camp; life in the camp from mid-September 1943 to July 5, 1944; liberation by Red Army forces; immigration to Israel in 1950.

File Number : 13378

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Haim Rintovich, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Kaufering, Lansberg and Dachau

Testimony

Testimony of Haim Rintovich, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Kaufering, Landsberg and Dachau Childhood in a traditional family; attends Tarbut school for six years; assists his mother in her job in a candy factory. Outbreak of war; 1939; occupation [of Kaunas] by the Red Army, 1940; life [in Kaunas] until summer, 1941; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; occupation [of Kaunas] by the German Army; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; receiving gold and silver from a policeman acquaintance; obtaining a large amount of sugar...

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

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 54, 16/08/1941 Part 1 - Political events: Kidnapping of four Schutzpolizei (Schupo-Protective Police) near Sabac, Yugoslavia, by the partisans; discovery of two of the bodies [of the kidnapped men]; expansion of the activity of Communist partisan units; establishment of Jagdkompanien ("game hunt" companies) in fighting the partisans; expansion of the Serbian gendarmerie, by recommendation of the...

File Number : 163.54

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Brina (Fridman) Levin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1914, regarding her experiences in detention in the Seventh Fort, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Malken and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Brina (Fridman) Levin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1914, regarding her experiences in detention in the Seventh Fort, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Malken and other places Life in Kaunas before the war. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1940; nationalization of the business and the family home; closure of Jewish institutions; German occupation, 1941; murder of her sister and brother-in-law in a pogrom; attempt to ask for help from the Lithuanian police; her mother's detention in the Seventh Fort; joins her mother; transfer to Ninth Fort with her mother; release from detention; deportation to the...

File Number : 12674

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 29, 21 July 1941 Part 1 - Political activities: There is no new information; Part 2 - Reports of the Einsatzgruppen: Einsatzgruppe B: The political, military and economic situation in the Vilna area, tense relations between the Lithuanian and the Polish populations including the dismissal of Polish factory managers and their replacement by Lithuanians; confiscation of radios and bicycles...

File Number : 163.29

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 21, 13 July 1941 Reports of the Einsatzgruppe B: Minsk: Presence in Minsk; the economic situation of the kolkhozes in Belorussia; the possibility of renewing the activity of the kolkhozes under German administration; situation of the agriculture in the area; transfer of 30 members of the Belorussian intelligentsia from the Generalgouvernement and the eastern occupied territories to Minsk;...

File Number : 163.21

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO-Security Police) and the Sicherheitsdiens (SD-Security Service) headquarters regarding military and political activity during the occupation of the Soviet Union: Report No. 17, 09 July 1941 Part 1 - Political events; Part 2 - Military events; Part 3 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen: Increased anti-Nazi propaganda in Austria; detention of Communists in Munich and Brussels; continued advance of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union; establishment of bridgeheads across the Dnieper, Prut and Dunau (Danube) Rivers; Activity of the Einsatzgruppen and the...

File Number : 163.17

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Memoirs by Stanislaw Barancewicz, regarding the martyrdom of the Jews from Nieswiez ghetto

Memoirs by Stanislaw Barancewicz, regarding the martyrdom of the Jews from Nieswiez ghetto Stanislaw Barancewicz recalls the coexistence of Polish and Jewish population in Nieswiez, eastern Poland, in the interwar period; Soviet invasion on September 19, 1939; Nazi invasion in June 1941; regular executions by shooting from August 1941. In the fall of 1941 the Nieswiez ghetto was established; some of the Jews were crossing over the fence to obtain food in the Barancewicz family household that stood on the border with the ghetto. In November 1942 about 3,000 people were shot and buried in the mass graves in...

File Number : 3603

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Letter of Testimony

Language : Polish

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