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Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by members of her family and her friends in the Kowno Ghetto, France and the Netherlands, 1942-1943

Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by members of her family and her friends in the Kowno Ghetto, France and the Netherlands, 1942-1943 - Telegram sent by Luba Grodsenski from Tonneins [France] to her sister, Nuta, in Finland with the information that her husband, Julius Grodsenski, has been taken to an unknown destination, 26 August 1942; - Postcards sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by her sister, Luba Grodsenski from Tonneins (France), 1942; - Postcard sent to Nuta Stein in Finland by her sister, Luba Grodsenski from Casseneuil, 01 September 1942; - Postcard sent from Finland to Luba Grodsenski...

File Number : 2026

Type of Material : Letter, Telegram, Postcard

Language : German

Letters written by Hinda and Rivka Berenstein in Ylakiai, Lithuania and sent to their sister Ida (Berenstein) Lev in Eretz Israel, 1941

Letters written by Hinda and Rivka Berenstein in Ylakiai, Lithuania and sent to their sister Ida (Berenstein) Lev in Eretz Israel, 1941 - Postcard sent by Hinda Berenstein from Ylakiai to her sister Ida Paper, 24/02/1941; - Postcard sent by Hinda to Ida Lev, 09/05/1941; - Letter by Rivka (Berenstein) Gilene to her sister Ida, 29 September (year, unknown); - Scan of a letter written by Rina Glaz (the daughter of Rivka Gilene) to Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among the Nations" department, 20/11/1996, including information regarding Anele Glavetzkene, who rescued Rina from the ghetto, and was recognized by...

File Number : 1897

Type of Material : Letter, Postcard, Letter of Testimony

Language : Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Yafa Kimchi, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Gorkiy region, a kolkhoz in Samarkand, and other places

Memoirs of Yafa Kimchi, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Gorkiy region, a kolkhoz in Samarkand, and other places Life before the war; participation in aliya training groups; attends a Hebrew high school. Soviet occupation; air-raids on Kaunas, June 1941; escape with members of the aliya training group; escape by train to the Gorkiy region; escape to Uzbekistan; life in Samarkand including labor in a kolkhoz; inadequate nutrition; draft of the men to the Red Army, including her brother; her brother is wounded in battle at the front; labor in food storerooms of...

File Number : 8293

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Ita (Weber) Vinogron, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Thorn and on a death march

Testimony of Ita (Weber) Vinogron, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1933, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Thorn and on a death march Murder of the witness' father in Ponary; murder of her mother and older sister in a concentration camp in Estonia; life in the Vilna Ghetto with her remaining sisters; hiding of the witness in a flour sack by her sister during the "Aktions"; liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto; deportation to Kaiserwald; transfer to Danzig; transfer to Thorn; life in Thorn including being hidden under a bed by a female SS officer during the "Aktions"; death march, January 1945;...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Roza Rogowski, born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, 1903, regarding her family's experiences in Kalvarija between the two World Wars, and the murder of the Jews of Kalvarija by the Germans

File Number : 8265

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : English

Lists of Nazi war criminals, Lithuanian collaborators and Jews and Lithuanians who perished in Taurage including their addresses, 29/06/1945

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Official Documentation, List of Perpetrators, List of Residents, List of Names, List of Murdered Persons

Language : Lithuanian, Russian

Testimony of Hersch Weinberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Pinnau, Kreuzsee, Dretz, Birkenau, and Monowitz

Testimony of Hersch Weinberg, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Pinnau, Kreuzsee, Dretz, Birkenau, and Monowitz German occupation, 07 September 1939; forced labor while the Jews endure humiliations and abuse; announcement regarding the establishment of the Lodz Ghetto, March 1940; mass escape of Jews to the Generalgouvernement area; transfer with a group of 70 Jews to Pinnau, Germany, 1940; camp life including labor preparing an area for the laying of railroad tracks, under the guard of Lithuanians, while enduring beatings and the intentional breaking of limbs; transfer to...

File Number : 216

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Zofia Swirska, born in Vilna, Lithuania (Poland), 1910, regarding her family's experiences in Vilna

Testimony of Zofia Swirska, born in Vilna, Lithuania (Poland), 1910, regarding her family's experiences in Vilna German occupation, 25 June 1941; robbery of Jewish-owned stores by the Germans, immediately after the occupation; extreme change in the attitude toward the Jews, by the Lithuanian residents; participation by local residents in units that took part in the execution and mass murder of Jews; her family's search for an apartment, and the detention of her family, 04 July 1941; her husband Borys Swirski presents himself to the authorities for agricultural labor due to his desire to be considered as an...

File Number : 195

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Correspondence and testimonies of the Jewish Historical Documentation Center, Linz, against Martin Weiss, commander of the Wilno Ghetto and leader of the Lithuanian fascists

File Number : 781

Type of Material : Letter

Language : German

Testimony of Berel Chazkelewitz and Pesia Taitz against Lithuanian war criminal Adolfas Petravicius

File Number : 705

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : German

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