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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 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 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

Testimony of Sinai Perski, born in Jonava, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Jonava, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Kuremaa and Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen

Testimony

Testimony of Sinai Perski, born in Jonava, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Jonava, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Kuremaa and Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; education; membership in Beitar youth movement. Annexation to the Soviet Union; nationalization of property; outbreak of the war, 1941; German occupation; escape to Slobodka; pogrom; hidden by his uncle; deportation to the large ghetto in Kaunas; ghetto life; the large "Aktion"; deportation to Estonia; life in Kuremaa camp; deportationr via Danzig to Stutthof; transfer to Neuengamme camp; labor digging; dysentery;...

File Number : 12603

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. 14, 06 July 1941 Part 1 - Political events; Part 2 - Military events; Part 3 - Reports from the Einsatzgruppen: Detention of Communist activists in Dortmund; Communist propaganda in the Hamburg area; activity of French Communists in establishing an underground resistance and amassing resources for the uprising; detention of 2,000 Communists in Bulgaria and their internment in...

File Number : 163.14

Type of Material : Survey Report

Language : German

Testimony of Mania (Galperin) Eshkolot, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, and a camp in the Baltic Sea area

Testimony

Testimony of Mania (Galperin) Eshkolot, born in Kaunas, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, and a camp in the Baltic Sea area Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; her father’s work as a bookkeeper in a factory; German occupation, 1941; murder of her father and brother; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life including labor cleaning officers' houses; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including forced labor digging trenches; transfer to the Baltic Sea area; life in a sawmill and labor digging trenches; death march to Lodz;...

File Number : 12339

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Miriam (Sher) Kagan, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Panevezys Ghetto and in hiding in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Miriam (Sher) Kagan, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Panevezys Ghetto and in hiding in a village Move to Panevezys; her family owns a wholesale business for flour and food products; witness attends a Hebrew school and Yavneh high school; death of her father. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; nationalization of the family's property; exile of her mother to Siberia; her older brothers work as salaried employees in the family business; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Panevezys Ghetto; ghetto life including labor peeling potatoes and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Rachel (Barel) Wishna, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stutthof, Klooga and Bromberg camps

Testimony

Testimony of Rachel (Barel) Wishna, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stutthof, Klooga and Bromberg camps Religious family; death of her father; witness attends a "Tarbut" school. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; Kaunas Ghetto life; deportation to Klooga camp, 1943; transfer to Stutthof; liberation in Bromberg, January 1945. Feldafing DP camp life; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Vladimir Chaim Siniuk, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Seventh Fort, the Ninth Fort, Vaivara, Tallin, Stutthof and Danzig

Testimony

Testimony of Vladimir Chaim Siniuk, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Seventh Fort, the Ninth Fort, Vaivara, Tallin, Stutthof and Danzig From a family with seven children; his father is a tailor and a member of Poalei Zion-Left; he and his siblings are members of Hashomer Hatzair; his mother tongue is Yiddish. Life under Soviet occupation from 1940; outbreak of the war, 22 June 1941; air-raids; escape to the Soviet occupied area; return to Kaunas; collaboration of the Lithuanian nationalists with the Germans; round-up of Jewish men in the Seventh Fort; separation of men and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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