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Testimony

Testimony of Lucia (Feinshtock) (Bzhozhovski) Schimmel, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1922, regarding her experiences in the Vilna and Siauliai Ghettos, in Stutthof, Ponewesch and Kaiserwald camps and more Life before the war; move to Vilna; life there; Soviet occupation, 1940; imposition of restrictions; escape of the Soviet authorities and German occupation, 1941; kidnapping of Jews by Lithuanians; deportation to the large ghetto, 06 September; ghetto life; labor in peat mining in Biala-Waka; organization of an underground in the Vilna Ghetto; demand of the Gestapo from the head of the Judenrat, Yaakov...

File Number : 13332

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Vitka (Kampner) Kovner, born in Kalisz, Poland, regarding her experiences in a ghetto and forest and her attitude toward basic questions related to her experiences

Testimony

Testimony of Vitka (Kampner) Kovner, born in Kalisz, Poland, regarding her experiences in a ghetto and forest and her attitude toward basic questions related to her experiences Parent-child relationship. Male and female refugees; development of her attitude toward the Soviets in Lithuania and in the forest, after the liberation and her escape; values and ideas contrasted with personal rescue and survival; comprehension of the Germans' plans; relations between the underground and the community; types of resistance and combat in the ghetto; escape from the ghetto to the forest. Search for survivors from...

File Number : 12131

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaim Lewin Kowaliszki, born in 1924 in Lithuania, about his internment in the Lida ghetto, escape to Wilno, doing odd jobs, and detention at Gestapo headquarters

Individuals: Ribbentrop, Molotov, Lichtman Kalman, Tuvoa Bielski, Jacob Gens, Wittenberg Topics: the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the Death Head

File Number : 11871

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Memoirs of Dina Fried-Bornstein, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in the Vilna Ghetto and in camps

Memoirs of Dina Fried-Bornstein, regarding her experiences during the Holocaust period in the Vilna Ghetto and in camps "Aktion", and the execution of Jews in Ponary; activities in the context of the FPO, the United Partisan Organization; deportation to Strasdenhof camp and Kaiserwald camp; labor at the Joglas manufacturing factory; deportation to Stutthof camp and to a labor camp in Bromberg; death march; liberation; aliya to Eretz Israel.

File Number : 2396

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Berl Wassersztejn regarding the establishment of a partisan unit in the Bialystok Ghetto

Testimony of Berl Wassersztejn regarding the establishment of a partisan unit in the Bialystok Ghetto Establishment of a resistance organization in Bialystok, December 1941; disbanding of the organization after the "Aktion" in the Bialystok Ghetto, 05 February 1943; establishment of the United Partisan Organization; organization activities including smuggling weapons into the ghetto; transfer of youth to forests in the Suprasl area; liquidation of the ghetto, 16 August 1943; fighting by the members of the Jewish underground in the Bialystok Ghetto.

File Number : 78

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Sarah Shawicz, born in Vilna, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kaiserwald and Stutthof

Testimony of Sarah Shawicz, born in Vilna, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kaiserwald and Stutthof Occupation of Vilna by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; "Aktions"; deportation of Jews to Ponary; murder of Jews in Ponary; activities of the underground movement in the ghetto; activities of Yitzhak Wittenberg, commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO - United Partisan Organization); cultural life in the ghetto; forced labor in Biala Waka; liquidation of the ghetto, 24 September 1943; deportation...

File Number : 107

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Songs and prose written by Shmerke Kaczerginski regarding the history of Vilna performed by the students at the Jewish School in Vilna after World War II, 11 June 1945

Songs and prose written by Shmerke Kaczerginski regarding the history of Vilna performed by the students at the Jewish School in Vilna after World War II, 11 June 1945 A description of life in Vilna before the war; Dedication of the play and the songs to life in the Vilna Ghetto; the children at the Jewish School in Vilna performed the roles of the ghetto administration, the Judenrat and the Jewish police, the underground members and the Vilna Ghetto fighters.

File Number : 45

Type of Material : Stories, List of Names, Poems/songs

Language : Yiddish

Testimony of Peshe Sheinbaum regarding the experiences of the partisan Ilya Sheinbaum, born in Odessa, Ukraine, 1914, written down 19 July 1944

Testimony of Peshe Sheinbaum regarding the experiences of the partisan Ilya Sheinbaum, born in Odessa, Ukraine, 1914, written down 19 July 1944 Activities of Ilya Sheinbaum in the underground movement in the Vilna Ghetto, including serving as commander of the Fourth Battalion of the United Partisan Organization (FPO) in the ghetto; bringing weapons into the ghetto; training fighters with the weapons; preparation of fighters for going out into the forests; surrounding of the Vilna Ghetto by the [German?] Army, 01 September 1943; FPO decision to rebel; appointment of Ilya Sheinbaum as commander of the...

File Number : 15

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish

Joint testimony of Berl Sharshanowsky, born in Vilna, Poland, 1909, and Sonia Medeisker, born in Vilna Poland, 1914, regarding their experiences in the underground in the Vilna Ghetto and as partisans Berl Sharshanowsky: Membership in the Communist party in Vilna before the war. Enlists in the Polish Army; combat in Warsaw; occupation of Vilna by the German Army; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; Communist party activities in the ghetto along with Yitzhak Wittenberg and Zeina Borovska; founding of the United Partisan Organization (FPO); appointment as commander of a partisan unit; transfer to the Narocz...

File Number : 14

Type of Material : List of Names, Testimony

Language : Yiddish

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