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Testimony of Lea (Feinstein) Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Lea (Feinstein) Orbach, born in Vilna, Poland, 1925, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and a death march Life in Vilna before the war; Zionist, traditional family; witness attends Jewish schools; meets Jewish deportees from Germany; help by the Jewish community to the refugees. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer of Vilna to Lithuanian rule; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; air-raids; anti-Jewish restrictions including the yellow badge; termination of studies; forced labor; deportation to the Vilna...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Chaia (Mazja) Levin, born in Vilna, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans in the forests in the area

Testimony

Testimony of Chaia (Mazja) Levin, born in Vilna, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans in the forests in the area Family background; education; community life. Annexation to the Soviet Union; German occupation, June 1941; decrees; confiscation of property; yellow badge; Lithuanian collaborators; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, September 1941; workshops in the ghetto; establishment of the FPO, the United Partisan Organization; activities within the underground framework; gun battle in the ghetto; cultural activities in the ghetto; marriage in the ghetto,...

File Number : 12595

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

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

Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959

Publication titled "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, edited by M. Segalson, Tel Aviv, 1959 This file contains: Publication under the title "Extermination of the Jews in Lithuania - facts from the years 1941-1945", compiled from various documents, inter alia testimonials, witness reports, articles, drawings, photographs, edited by M. Segalson in Tel Aviv; the publication gives a historical summary and description of the persecution, torture and murder of Lithuanian Jewry, carried out by the German occupation forces and their...

File Number : 3362

Type of Material : Memoirs, Photograph, List of Nazi War Criminals, Drawing, Newspaper Clippings, Testimony, Document(s), List of Perpetrators, Photocopy, Documentary, Excerpt(s), Reports

Language : German

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

Correspondence between Shmerke Kaczerginski, the writer, and various Jewish institutions during his time in Paris and Buenos Aires, 1947-1953

Correspondence between Shmerke Kaczerginski, the writer, and various Jewish institutions during his time in Paris and Buenos Aires, 1947-1953 - Letters sent to Shmerke Kaczerginski, the writer, during his time in Paris and Buenos Aires by various Jewish institutions, including the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO- renamed the Institute for Jewish Research) in New York, the World Congress for Jewish Culture in New York, the editorial board and management [of the newspaper], "Befreiung (Liberation)", in Munich, the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Germany "Haderech Shelanu (Our Way)", the editorial...

File Number : 8

Type of Material : Letter, List of Names

Language : Yiddish

"Die Greeneh Legendeh (The Green Legend)", essays by Shmerke Kaczerginski, translated from Yiddish into Spanish, 1945-1952

"Die Greeneh Legendeh (The Green Legend)", essays by Shmerke Kaczerginski, translated from Yiddish into Spanish, 1945-1952 "From Hell" - An appeal from the FPO (United Partisan Organization) to the last of the Jews in the Vilna Ghetto to rise up in rebellion against the Nazis, 01 September 1943; problems in providing weapons to the rebels; a visit to Yitzhak Wittenberg in the partisans' headquarters in the ghetto; in the kingdom of the "Minister for Eastern Affairs", Alfred Rosenberg; Vitnberg's surrendering of himself to the Gestapo; leavetaking of the fighters going out to join the partisans from the...

File Number : 6

Type of Material : Memoirs

Language : Yiddish

English translation of the play, "Zvishen Fallendikeh Vahnt (Between Crumbling Walls)", presented in Paris, 1948

English translation of the play, "Zvishen Fallendikeh Vahnt (Between Crumbling Walls)", presented in Paris, 1948 A tragedy in three acts and seven scenes regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Vilna Ghetto including the arrest of Yitzhak Wittenberg in the Vilna Ghetto, 16-17 July 1943; the actors portrayed the members of the underground FPO (United Partisan Organization), as well as Jacob Gens, Yitzhak Wittenberg, Abba Kovner and Sonia Madisker.

File Number : 5

Language : English

Regulations of the FPO (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye – United Partisan Organization – World War II resistance organization in the Vilna Ghetto) dated March 3, 1943, compiled in the Vilna ghetto by members of the headquarters; Combat diary of a company of Jewish partisans about their operations in the vicinity of Grodno - Regulations of the FPO - United Partisan Organization - which was drawn up in March 1943 in the Vilna ghetto by the members of the headquarters: Icik Vitenberg, Nisan Reznik, Abba Kovner, Josef Lazerman and others; - FPO proclamation calling for resistance against the Germans dated...

File Number : 462

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons, Diary

Language : Polish, Russian, Yiddish

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