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Testimony of Yaacov Shvartz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, in 1929 regarding the Siauliai ghetto, the Stutthof and other camps

Testimony

Childhood in Siauliai; entry of the Russians in 1940; arrival of Jewish refugees from Poland; German occupation in June 1941; pogrom by the Lithuanians; murder of the stratum of the Jewish intelligentsia including the father; deportation to the Siauliai ghetto; overcrowding; yellow badges; starvation; forced labor; smugglings of food;'aktion" of the elderly in 1942; 'aktion' of the children in November 1943; liquidation of the Siauliai ghetto in July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; physical and emotional abuse; meeting with Russian captives; starvation; fate of the mother who escaped from the killing pit near...

File Number : 13687

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony Joseph Fridman, born in Borsa, Romania, in 1927 regarding deportation to Auschwitz and other camps

Orthodox family; 10 Jewish families in the village; moving to Hungarian control in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to the Cluj ghetto in 1944; deportation by transport to Auschwitz Birkenau in May 1944; remaining with the father; transfer to Buchenwald and Magdeburg camps; injury of the father during the bombing of the camp; moving to the barrack for handicapped in Buchenwald; information regarding the death of the parents and the brothers; activity in aliya bet; illegal immigration on board the ship "Arba Hirouyot" (four freedoms) in 1946; exile to Cyprus; aliya back to Israel; establishment of the Odim...

File Number : 13692

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Lazar Livshitz, born in Gomel, Belorussia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier in Bialystok, using a false identity in the Baranovichi camp, the Biala Podlaska camp, the Deblin camp and more Part I (written 06 December 1945 as a letter to his beloved telling of his experiences): Outbreak of the war; being taken captive; transfer to the Baranovichi camp; camp life using a false identity (Nikolay Kulinenko); transfer to the Biala Podlaska camp; camp life in open cages without shelter from the rain and snow; abuse by the so-called camp police which was made up of inmates; transfer...

File Number : 8620

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimonial letter written by Roman Kaplan regarding the evacuation of his family from Polotsk to Sverdlovsk, 1941, and the experiences of his family during the war and afterwards

File Number : 8567

Type of Material : Letter of Testimony

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Bela Arshavski, born in Gadyach, Ukraine, 1921, regarding her experiences in Gadyach, as a Red Army soldier in Alekseyevka, a captive of the German Army and using a false identity in the villages of Ukraine Life in Gadyach at the outbreak of the war; drafted to the Red Army as a medical nurse; retreat after the Red Army [?]; correspondence with her family which had been evacuated to Uzbekistan; transfer to Alekseyevka with her battalion; air-raids; encounter with the German Army; killing of all the soldiers in the battalion except her and another physician; hiding of their personal documents and...

File Number : 8550

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Russian

Testimony of Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by...

File Number : 13611

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Reports regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Belorussia during 1941-1943

Reports regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Belorussia during 1941-1943 Survey reports regarding the burning of Jewish homes in Brest during 1941-1943; murder of Jews in Shchedrin, 1941-1943; murder of Jewish men in Pogost, 1941-1943; murder of Jews in Logishin, 1941-1943; murder of Jews in Moshchianaki, 1941-1943; establishment of the Gomel Ghetto and decree imposed on the Jews regarding wearing a yellow badge, 1941-1943; murder of Pinsk Jews and acts of looting of Jewish property, 1941-1943; murder of Lelchitsy Jews, 1941-1943; murder of Minsk Jews on 21 July 1941; murder and rape of Lelchitsy...

File Number : 3679

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Names, Lists, Survey Report

Language : Russian

Reports prepared by members of the Communist Party and Soviet workers in 1941, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Belorussia during June-October 1941

Reports prepared by members of the Communist Party and Soviet workers in 1941, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Belorussia during June-October 1941 Establishment of a camp for local residents in Minsk in July 1941; detention of Jews in the camp; abuse and murder of Jews in the camp in July 1941; Murder of Petrikov Jews in 1941; Forced labor in Vitebsk in 1941; abuse and murder of Jews in Vitebsk; Murder of Korma Jews in 1941; Establishment of a camp for local residents and POWs in Ruzhany in late June 1941; detention of Jews in the camp; murder of Jews from the camp during June-July...

File Number : 3668

Type of Material : List of Residents, List of Collaborators, Names, Official Documentation, Survey Report

Language : Russian

Reports submitted to the central committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Belorussia in 1941

Reports submitted to the central committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Belorussia in 1941 Murder of Logoshin Jews, 1941; burning of Jewish homes in Brest along with their residents, 1941; murder of Pogost Jews, 1941; acts of abuse and murder of Shchadrin Jews, 1941; acts of abuse on Jews and forced labor in Zhabinka, 1941; establishment of concentration camps for POWs and local residents in Minsk and Slutsk, 1941; establishment of a camp for POWs and local residents in Minsk, and separation of Jews in the camp, 1941; Oppression and murder of...

File Number : 3649

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Survey Report, Names, List of Partisans

Language : Russian

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa

Testimony of Matvey Lichterman, born in Shumyachi, Soviet Union, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, a POW camp in Uman and Vinnitsa Participation in a Red Army military operation as a paratrooper; death of many soldiers and his capture by the German Army; transfer to Uman; life in a POW camp; hiding his Jewish identity; life using the false identity of Mikhail Garin; murder of many POWs; transfer to forced labor outside the camp; receiving food from the local population; survival due to the food; draft of Ukrainians as forced laborers for the German Army and the camp police; propaganda campaign...

File Number : 8509

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : Russian

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