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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

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944

Documentation regarding the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the War Refugee Board (WRB), 1944 Pages 22, 24 (?): Incomplete dispatch (No. 7454) from the US Legation, Bern, to the Secretary of State, Washington, regarding the proposed program of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the relief of Jewish refugees and other persecuted groups in enemy territory, 02 March 1944; Page 2: Enclosure No. 1 to dispatch No. 7454 from the US Legation, Bern, to the President of the ICRC, Geneva, regarding the provision of food and medicines for Jews and other...

File Number : 93

Type of Material : Note, Memorandum, Telegram, Letter(s), Official Documentation, Financial Accounts, Correspondence

Language : French, English

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

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

List of the executions carried out by Einsatzkommando 3 between 02/07/1941-01/12/1941, and a report regarding the Einsatzkommando 3 activities and the murder of the Jews in Lithuania

List of the executions carried out by Einsatzkommando 3 between 02/07/1941-01/12/1941, and a report regarding the Einsatzkommando 3 activities and the murder of the Jews in Lithuania Included in the file: - List of executions carried out by Einsatzkommando 3 between 02/07/1941-01/12/1941; the list includes the date of the execution, the place, number of victims, and nationality or type of victim (Communists were sometimes listed separately, and there are separate details for Jews, according to gender and age). In some cases, an explanation was added, especially in cases of the "Strafaktionen" in the...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Statistical Data, Survey Report, Official Documentation

Language : German

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Mina Menacker during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Mina Menacker during the Holocaust Mina Menacker, born in Vilna, Poland, 1928: Deportation to the Zezmar (Lithuania) concentration camp, 1941; transfer to the Riga camp; transfer to the Stutthof camp; transfer to the Chumay (or Chunay) (Germany) camp; liberation at Chumay (or Chunay) by the Soviet Army. Arrival at the Foehrenwald DP camp, November 1945; murder of her mother by shooting in the Vilna Ghetto; report that her father is alive, whereabouts unknown; a sister and a brother are in a DP camp in Germany.

File Number : 193

Type of Material : Questionnaire, Record of Deportees, Record of Survivors, Record of Murdered Persons

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Chane Michalevic during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Chane Michalevic during the Holocaust Chane Michalevic, born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, 1928: Deportation to the Kovno Ghetto with her family, 1941; deaths of her parents and elder sister in the ghetto; deportation to the Stutthof camp; transfer to the Thorn camp; transfer to the Strasburg camp; transfer to the Praust (Poland) camp; transfer to the Neustadt camp (near Berlin); liberation by the British Army. Arrival at the Foehrenwald DP camp, August 1945.

File Number : 185

Type of Material : Record of Survivors, Questionnaire, Record of Deportees

Language : English

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Chana Cwik during the Holocaust

Questionnaire regarding the experiences of Chana Cwik during the Holocaust Chana Cwik, born in Kowno, Lithuania, 1928: Transfer to Vilna with her family, summer 1943; murder of her mother in Vilna by the German police; deportation of her father to the Stutthof camp, where he perished; deportation to Stutthof; transfer to the Sophienwalde camp (near Buchenwald); transfer to the Gottendorf camp; evacuation from Gottendorf; liberation by the Red Army. Typhus; hospitalization at Lamburg (?); arrival at the Foehrenwald DP camp, December 1945.

File Number : 159

Type of Material : Record of Murdered Persons, Record of Survivors, Record of Deportees, Questionnaire

Language : English

Report, probably by a German security agency, regarding the political, economic and demographic situation in the Reichkommissariat Ostland, especially in the occupied Baltic countries, including the "Jewish question", 1941 (?) File number: 184 unreadable. (pp. 1 - 2) Description of the war at the Eastern front in Estonia and Russia. (pp. 2 -3) first part unreadable, then: short description of the work of the Sicherheitspolizei. (Security police) (p. 4) unreadable (p. 5) Einsatzgruppen reach Riga. Focus on "pacification of Lithuanian and Latvian land". The Sicherheitspolizei was responsible for...

File Number : 184

Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo: Correspondence between Nazi authorities regarding the deportation of Jews and Gypsies from the German Reich and the Reichsprotektorat to the Lodz, Riga and Minsk Ghettos, 10-12/1941; Documentation by the Wuerzburg Gestapo regarding the transport from Nuremberg to Riga in 27-29/11/1941; Reports regarding the executions by the Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania, 7-12/1941

Trial against employees of the Gestapoleitstelle (Central Office) Berlin: Correspondence between Nazi authorities regarding the deportation of Jews and Gypsies from the German Reich and the Reichsprotektorat to the Lodz, Riga and Minsk Ghettos in October - December 1941; Documentation by the Wuerzburg Gestapo regarding the transport from Nuremberg to Riga in 27-29/11/1941; Reports regarding the executions by the Einsatzkommando 3 in Lithuania in July - December 1941 Trial against employees of the Berlin Gestapo: Correspondence between Nazi authorities regarding the deportation of Jews and Gypsies from...

File Number : 123

Language : German

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