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Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Slobodka, in the Slobodka Ghetto, in Augsburg and in Stutthof Death of his mother when he was 8 years old; studies in a "heder" in Tels; family life; treatment by the local population; sympathy for the Communist Party; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; detention of his brother Chaim in a camp for several years; emigration of his sister to Rhodesia; move to Slobodka due to his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937; death of his father, February 1939; work as a...

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto, in the Stutthof area and in the Augsburg camp

Testimony of Sam Katz, born in Tels, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Slobodka Ghetto; the Stutthof area and the Augsburg camp Life before the war; death of his mother when he was 8 years old; learns in a "heder"; affinity towards the Communist movement; escape of his brother Chaim to the Soviet Union; deportation of his brother to a camp; move to Slobodka following his marriage to Masha Mishkovski, 1935; life in Slobodka; birth of his son, Yakov, 1937, death of his father, February, 1939. The Soviet occupation; labor as a watchmaker; his appointment as a Commisar; fleeing of the Red...

File Number : 8505

Type of Material : Interview(s)

Language : English

Testimony of Chaya (Mosel) Rozenberg, born in Obeliai, Lithuania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Torun, Prochnik and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Chaya (Mosel) Rozenberg, born in Obeliai, Lithuania, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Torun, Prochnik and other places Life before the war; attends a Yavneh school; move to Kaunas for her education. Attempts to go home with the outbreak of the war, June 1941; return to her uncle's home in Kaunas; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto with her sister, August 1941; ghetto life including forced labor in an airfield; the large "Aktion", October 1941; rescue by a Jewish policeman; liquidation of the Kaunas Ghetto, July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; camp life including...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Janina (Landau) Hescheles, regarding the experiences of a Jewish child, Lejbus Fuchs from Gliniany

Testimony of Janina (Landau) Hescheles, regarding the experiences of a Jewish child, Lejbus Fuchs from Gliniany Lejbus Fuchs was born in May 1928 or 1929, the son of Bina Fuchs (an unmarried mother); his mother works as a servant in the homes of well-to-do Jews in Lwow; his mother marries a Jewish shoemaker and moves to her husband's home in Gliniany; his mother becomes sick, and her son Lejbus goes to work at a young age to help earn a livelihood for the family; Draft of Lejbus' stepfather into the army; Lejbus becomes the main supporter of the family, which included his mother and two younger sisters;...

File Number : 310

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony

Language : Polish

To be translated

File Number : 1847

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 598

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Letters, telegrams, and additional documentation pertaining to the Kapulski family from Kaunas and their experiences during the Holocaust and afterward

Letters, telegrams, and additional documentation pertaining to the Kapulski family from Kaunas and their experiences during the Holocaust and afterward - Telegram sent from Zurich to the Kapulski family in Tel Aviv containing information regarding family members in Europe, 17 July 1945; - Letters and telegrams sent from the Modena Displaced Persons camp by Yitzchak Kapulski to family members in Tel Aviv, October-November 1945. The letter dated 17 October 1945 appears in translation to Hebrew only; - Identity cards issued for the purpose of making aliya to Eretz Israel; --for Chaja Kapulska just before...

File Number : 4903

Type of Material : Letter, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Telegram

Language : Italian, Hebrew, English, Yiddish

Correspondence between members of the Granievitch family in Lithuania, France and Eretz Israel, 1933-1941; biography of Masha Graneviciene, by her daughter Anna Zimrani; the poem, "On the Steps of My House" by Avraham Zimrani, dated 1946 Letters and postcards sent by Masha Graneviciene to her daughter Anna, 1933-1939: - Letters sent by Masha Graneviciene from Kaunas to her daughter Anna (A. Granevicintei) in Kulautuva, July 1933 (in Yiddish); - Letters and postcards sent by Masha Graneviciene during her stay in Paris to her daughter Anna Granevicintei, and to her parents, Abba and Sara Pagirski,...

File Number : 3758

Type of Material : Postcard, Poems/songs, Curriculum Vitae (cv), Letter, Envelope

Language : Hebrew, French, Russian, Yiddish

Memoirs of Semyon Zundelovich, born in Kowno, regarding his escape from the Kowno camp in July 1944; letter written to his sister Lidia Sokolovskaya; documentation pertaining to the arrest of Iosif Sokolovskiy, by the NKVD, June 1941, and the experiences of the members of his family in the places to which they were exiled, 1941-1958 - Letter sent by Semyon Zundelovich from Vilna to his sister Lidia Sokolovskaya in Yakutiya, 22 October 1948, containing his memories concerning his rescue and that of his wife Vera at the time of the liquidation of the Kaunas camp, July 1944 (source): Murder of Nikolai...

File Number : 9812

Type of Material : Certification, Indictment, Death Certificate, החלטה, Sentence, Legal Documentation, Investigation Reports, Application, Memoirs, Personal Documents, Letter, כתובה

Language : Lithuanian, Russian, Aramaic

Memoirs of Lyuba (Yafis) Fish, born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1921, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stutthof, Chinow, Greifswald and other camps

Memoirs of Lyuba (Yafis) Fish, born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1921, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and in Stutthof, Chinow, Greifswald and other camps Her father Yehiel Yafis, born in Panevezhys, worked in the Central Bank of Kaunas; marriage of Yehiel and Breina (Shulimovitz), born in Yaroslavl, in the Soviet Union during World War I; return of the family to Lithuania in 1920; life of her sister Yehudit, born in 1926, in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof camp and Klaipeda; life in Kaunas before the war including studies; marriage to Moshe Fikus in 1940; death of Moshe in a camp in Czechoslovakia;...

File Number : 9634

Type of Material : Memoirs, Speech

Language : Hebrew

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