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Testimony of Zelda (Komraz) Rosenberg, born in Utena, Lithuania, 1923 regarding her escape to Novosibirsk, USSR

Testimony

Childhood; attends in a Hebrew school, Utena; attends the Hebrew gymnasium, Ukmerge; Life under the Soviet regime, 1940; escapes with her family one day before the German occupation, 1941; escape via Rokiskis, Lithuania, and Daugavpils, Latvia; work on a kolkhoz; drafting of her father to the Red Army and his release; move to Novosibirsk; drafting of her brother to the Red Army and his falling in battle at the front, 1943; work in an airplane factory; End of the war and her return with her family to Vilna, Lithuania, 1945; rebuilding life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1972.

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Personal documentation belonging to members of the Mussel family from Zarasai and letters written by Masha Mussel in the Dagestanskaya area, in Italy and Eretz Israel, 1923-1948

Personal documentation belonging to members of the Mussel family from Zarasai and letters written by Masha Mussel in the Dagestanskaya area, in Italy and Eretz Israel, 1923-1948 Documentation including: - Birth certificates of Masha Mussel, born in 1912, and Avraham Mussel, born in 1913, issued by the Jewish Community Committee in Zarasai, 14 January 1923; - Application submitted by Yaakov Mussel to the principal of the High School in Zarasai to accept his daughter Masha in Grade 2, 30 December 1925; - Additional application submitted by Yaakov Mussel to the principal of the High School in Zarasai to...

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Yiddish

Testimony of Boris Zalmanovitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Kaisiadoris and Raudonpline labor camps, and in a forest

Testimony

Testimony of Boris Zalmanovitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, in Kaisiadoris and Raudonpline labor camps, and in a forest Childhood; attendance at a Yiddish school for four years; two additional years at a Yiddish secondary school. Red Army occupation, 1940; German occupation of Lithuania, June 1941; escape to the East; return home, July 1941; establishment of the Kaunas Ghetto, late July 1941; hunt after inmates; deportation of ghetto inmates to Riga and Klaipeda; hunger; execution by shooting of his younger brother, October 1941; "Aktion" and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Russian

Testimony of Dwora Katz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Siauliai Ghetto, in Stutthof camp, in Guttau and in hiding in a village

Testimony

Testimony of Dwora Katz, born in Siauliai, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experiences as a child in the Siauliai Ghetto, in Stutthof camp, in Guttau and in hiding in a village Life before the war; witness attends a Tarbut school and a Hebrew high school; life in 1941. Soviet occupation; nationalization of her family's factory; German occupation; robbery of their property by Lithuanians; murder of her brother; deportation to the Siauliai Ghetto; Siauliai Ghetto life; labor in the airfield and in a leather factory; "Aktion" against children and elderly people with the approach of the Red Army; construction...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Meyer Simcha Feldblum, born in Skiemonys, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Podbrodzie Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony

Testimony of Meyer Simcha Feldblum, born in Skiemonys, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Podbrodzie Ghetto and in hiding His childhood; attends a Hebrew school and learns in a yeshiva. Life under Soviet rule; outbreak of the war during a visit to relatives in Podbrodzie, 1941; Podbrodzie Ghetto life; liquidation of the ghetto, August 1941; hidden by Polish farmers; his uncle and aunt join them in hiding; good attitude by the people who hid them; escape to a forest, late 1942; help from Polish farmers; life in hiding with his uncle, aunt, two cousins and then another couple with a baby girl...

File Number : 12103

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Avraham Fein, born in Kaunas, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Palemonas and Landsberg forced labor camps and a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Avraham Fein, born in Kaunas, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Kaunas Ghetto, Palemonas and Landsberg forced labor camps and a death march Childhood and education in the Jewish elementary school in Kaunas. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet rule; activities in the Pioneer movement; German occupation, 1941; murder of his father; move of the family to the ghetto; living conditions; selection, 1941; looting; his mother's and sister's forced labor at the airfield; preserves an observant way of life in the ghetto; deportation with his mother and sister to the Palemonas...

File Number : 11624

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Letters from the Cohen family in Lithuana to relatives in Eretz Israel, before the war, and documentation of Šolem and Tehila Cohen, born in Lithuania

Letters from the Cohen family in Lithuana to relatives in Eretz Israel, before the war, and documentation of Šolem and Tehila Cohen, born in Lithuania Documentation of the Cohen family in Panevėžys, Lithuania, and in Eretz Israel, 1921–1965 - Šolem Kagan/ Kohn/ Cohen, born in Subačius in 1903; - his wife Tehila Cohen, born in Lithuania in 1906. Also in the file: - contract between Yehiel Goldenberg and Eliyahu Goldman, drawn up in Netanya in 1941; - family tree of Reuven and Shoshana Elta Goldman.

File Number : 5578

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Genealogy, Letter

Language : Lithuanian, Hebrew, Arabic, English, Yiddish

Correspondence of Dr. Abraham Heller and his wife Jutta (Kastrel) with their family and friends from the 1920s-1950s and their personal documentation

- personal documents of Dr. Abraham Heller and Jutta Kastrel issued in Riga, Vilna, Berlin and in Eretz Israel in the 1920s-1940s. The documents include school certificates, grade transcripts, documents related to Abraham Heller's studies in Berlin and his work in various schools in Eretz Israel, and more; - "Die Juden in Russland seit der Revolution 1917 bis zur Gegenwart": Abraham Heller's doctoral thesis submitted in 1934, along with his biography; - articles by Dr. Abraham Heller published in 1935-1936; - correspondence between Abraham Heller in Berlin and Jutta Kastrel in Riga from 1929-1935. Attached...

File Number : 5384

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings, תעודת בית הספר, Personal Documents, Envelope, Telegram, Article, Certification, עבודת דוקטורנט, Letter, Postcard

Language : Hebrew, Polish, English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Latvian

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Testimony

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

עבודתה הסמינריונית של הדס קלימן על תולדות רשת חינוכית "יבנה" בליטא בין שתי מלחמות העולם

File Number : 362

Type of Material : Student Project, Research Paper

Language : Hebrew

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