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Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march

Testimony of Chaia Shvartzman Kaplan, born in Alytus, Lithuania in 1926, regarding her ‎experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, Stutthof camp, and the death march Family move to Kazlu Rhuda in 1930; her childhood in a Zionist traditional home; studies at a ‎Lithuanian school; antisemitism; joining Hashomer Hatzair; entry of the Russians in 1939; ‎nationalization of her father’s bakery; death of her mother from illness; German occupation in ‎June 1941; wearing the yellow badge; escape with her family to Kaunas; arrest by the Lithuanians ‎and deportation to the Seventh Fort; release of the women and children and...

File Number : 13652

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam Feffer, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas and Krumau

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam Feffer, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Kaunas and Krumau Her childhood in a traditional family of craftsmen, including her attending a Tarbut school; work and activities in Hapoel Hatzair. Help to refugees who were transferred from Poland and Germany; Red Army occupation of Kaunas; deportation of wealthy people and business owners; German Army occupation of Kaunas, 1941; life under German occupation including anti-Jewish acts of abuse; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; Kaunas Ghetto life including an "Aktion"; murder of her parents and two younger...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Riva Abramowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Kauen Schanzen, Stutthof, Lublin and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Riva Abramowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, Kauen Schanzen, Stutthof, Lublin and other places Life in Kaunas under Soviet occupation, until 1940; German Army occupation of Kaunas, 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, 1941; Kaunas Ghetto life including labor, 1941-1942; [murder of her] brother, apparently in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas; deportation to Kauen Schanzen camp; camp life including labor collecting beer bottles, 1944; transfer to Stutthof, 1944; camp life including forced labor; death march; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Work in the...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929

Testimony

Testimony of Izak Kopilowitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929 Childhood in a well-to do Zionist family. Entry of the Soviet Army, summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; looting by Lithuanians; yellow badge; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; work guarding the gardens; smuggling of newspapers into the ghetto and distributing them; attends school; poliomyelitis, 1942; work in a workshop; secret classes; setting up a printing press in the ghetto; turning the ghetto into a concentration camp and deportation of people, fall 1943; forced to watch a public hanging, 1943; "Aktion" against...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Shein, born in Kovno, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kovno Ghetto and in Landsberg, Stutthof and Sanciai camps and more

Testimony

Testimony of David Shein, born in Kovno, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kovno Ghetto and in Landsberg, Stutthof and Sanciai camps and more Life before the war; Help extended by the Jewish community to the refugees, 1939; Soviet occupation, 1940; persecution of Zionists; German occupation, June 1941; murder of Jews by Lithuanians; murder of members of the intelligentsia in the Seventh Fort; anti-Jewish legislation; wearing the yellow badge; deportation to the Kovno Ghetto, August 1941; establishment of an illegal library; the family receives work certificates thanks to his...

File Number : 13327

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony

Testimony of Reveka (Levite) Levy, born in Raseiniai, Lithuania, 1922, regarding her experiences in Raseiniai, the underground in the Kaunas Ghetto, Kedainiai, with the partisans in a forest and in the Red Army Life before the war; well-to-do, assimilated family. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, June 1941; harassment of Jews by Lithuanians; riots against Jews; escape and then return to her family's home; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; Kaunas Ghetto life including an "Aktion"; observes the transfer of Jews to the Ninth Fort, October 1941; labor in an airfield; appointment as the...

File Number : 13009

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Lea (Zarembok) Aharoni, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Trunz and Lubicz

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Zarembok) Aharoni, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Trunz and Lubicz Life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; refugees from Poland stay in her house; German occupation, June 1941; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the Soviet Union; sealing of the Kaunas Ghetto; murder of Jews in the streets; the Jewish police; fear of Ukrainians and Lithuanians; work permits are obtained for the whole family from a friend with Judenrat connections; burning of the hospital on Yom Kippur (01 October) 1941; "Large Aktion", 28 October 1941; mass...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Yerucham Krepel, born in Smorgonie, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Smorgonie, the Karkaciszki Ghetto, the Oszmiana Ghetto, the Kaunas Ghetto and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Yerucham Krepel, born in Smorgonie, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Smorgonie, the Karkaciszki Ghetto, the Oszmiana Ghetto, the Kaunas Ghetto and other places Life before the war; religious family; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation, 1939; deportation of the rich to Caucusus; draft of two brothers to the Red Army, 1940; German occupation, 1941; escape to the border and escape back to Smorgonie; escape of two siblings to Russia; life in Karkaciszki in a neighborhood established by the Baron Hirsh; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life; management of the ghetto by...

File Number : 13070

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Reuven Teibel, born in Ukmerge, Lithuania, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in an orphanage in Kuznetsk and Konstantinovka

Testimony

Testimony of Reuven Teibel, born in Ukmerge, Lithuania, 1937, regarding his experiences as a child in an orphanage in Kuznetsk and Konstantinovka Life before the war; his father is an electrician in Kovno. Outbreak of the German-Russian war, June 1941; escape from the city in a truck; murder of his mother, two brothers and baby sister and their burial in a mass grave in the city; act of revenge by his father on the truck driver; escape to the Soviet Union with his father; air-raids; life in an orphanage in Kuznetsk; murder of his grandmother and relatives in the Ninth Fort; his father volunteers to serve...

File Number : 12758

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Michael Korn Kaplan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and with the underground

Testimony

Testimony of Michael Korn Kaplan, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto and with the underground Life before the war. German occupation, June 1941; escape in the direction of Latvia and return; yellow badge; deportation to the Slobodka Ghetto; ghetto life; the Jewish police; metalwork course; labor as a messenger for a welding workshop; burning of the houses in the ghetto; in hiding in a subterranean hideout; in hiding in a forest; receives food from non-Jews; detention of his father in Dachau; transfer of his father to Kaufering; activies in the ghetto's...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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