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You searched for: Keyword JEWS Remove constraint Keyword: JEWS Digital Availability Has Supplementary Materials Remove constraint Digital Availability: Has Supplementary Materials Dates 1971-1990 Remove constraint Dates: 1971-1990 Key Cities Kaunas Remove constraint Key Cities: Kaunas
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1. Asriel and Mascha Berkmann papers
2016.202.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.202.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
bulk: 1945-1948
… the war, he lived in Munich, and worked as the head of a factory. He was also involved with the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria and the…
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 … papers; documents regarding Asriel’s involvement with the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria and the Jewish Committee Munich; correspondence…
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2. Oral history interview with Samuel Sherron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.68 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0068
Date:
interview: 1983 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… public school and a Cheder; life under the Russian occupation from 1940 until the German invasion; the roundup and torture of local Jews by SS troops and…
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 … religious community? SS: Very strictly, strictly Orthodox, yes. NL: And about how many Jews were in the town? Do you have any... SS: I would say about, close…
3. Oral history interview with Murray Gordon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.828 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0828
Date:
interview: 1989 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… atrocities perpetrated against Jews that he witnessed. Mr. Gordon describes being deported to Dachau with his father, being separated from his mother and…
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 … Lithuania. And they came in. And the Lithuanians, the first few days of the war, the Lithuanian partisans were very bad to the Jews. I mean, they rounded up a…
4. Oral history interview with Abraham Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.385.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0145
Date:
interview: 1990 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… losing most of his family’s belongings; the brutal treatment of Jews by Lithuanians; the establishment of a ghetto in Kaunas that held about thirty…
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 … by the killing and they were there by them digging and burning the Jews...the people up. And they saw what the Lithuanians had done. There were very…
5. Oral history interview with Masha Loen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.387.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0138
Date:
interview: 1990 May 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… other Kaunas Jews under the wooden floor planks in his home; being separated from her family in 1941 and taken to the Stutthof concentration camp in…
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 … many Jews got killed. In fact later on I heard from the grown-ups accidentally there was there was a head from the child and a breast from the mother…
6. Oral history interview with David J. Selznick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.447.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0211
Date:
interview: 1990 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kaunas ghetto in July 1944 and fleeing into the countryside, where he hid with some other Jews; his liberation by the Soviet Army; and immigrating to the…
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 … intellectuals, under the leadership of the priests and the, and the educated people started a tremendous antisemitic hate campaign towards the Jews. And the…
7. Oral history interview with Aaron Kobel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.706 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0706
Date:
interview: 1990 July 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forced move by Russian troops into the Slavodka (a suburb of Kovno) ghetto in 1940. Mr. Kobel describes the round-up and deportation of Jews by Nazi troops…
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 … most of our neighbors were non- Jewish. And I remember the little kids-- my age at that time, I was about eight or nine-- eight probably-- calling me Jew…
8. Oral history interview with Simon Taitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.139 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0139
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…); helping to save other Jews in the camp by giving them jobs in his watchmaking repair shop in Kaufering; and more details on daily life in the camps.…
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 … in the air. A Jew should not show his face outside. I had in some way by whispering of my good friends, the neighbors, the Lithuanians, it's better for…
9. Oral history interview with David Klebanow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0358 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0104
Date:
interview: 1989 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Belarus--Barysaŭ.…
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 … know, twenty thousand population--mostly Jews. A nice hospital, built by American emigrants what they were from...from the city Mi_dzyrzec. And they…
10. Oral history interview with Rachel Gordon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.764 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0764
Date:
interview: 1990 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Migrations--Russia (Federation)…
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 … bridge, a little town called Slobodke. Which in normal times, it was well known for yeshivas. Lots of Jews, of Hebrew yeshivas, people who studied for…
11. Oral history interview with Tzvi Griliches
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.495.7 | RG Number: RG-50.061.0007
Date:
interview: 1981 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania.…
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 … well? Yes. There was a small number of kapos. They were actually half half-Jews or Jewish Catholics, [INAUDIBLE] that they-- who were sent in from…
12. George Birman papers
1993.41.2 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1993.41.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2002
… Jews fled Kovno, including Abel and Hirsch. German soldiers apprehended them and forced their return to Kovno. In June and July, there were violent…
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 …. They lived at the Rothschild Hospital and worked for the illegal immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe to Palestine. In August 1946, George served as…
13. Oral history interview with Judith Meisel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.340.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0157
Date:
interview: 1990 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.…
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 … something that they would call the Jews...were not allowed to be...uh...used during the Russians, that everybody was supposed to get along. And...uh...yet…
14. Oral history interview with Ralph Codikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.416.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0055
Date:
interview: 1990 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.…
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 … were looking for Jewish people I believe. They were yelling there were any Jews hiding here and naturally, we admitted that we were Jewish. So I remember…
15. Oral history interview with Eva Dimont Igdalski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1470 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1470
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Lithuania.…
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 … shop. Its for-bud-den in Jewish in German. It is for-bud-den for dogs and for Jews to come in in the store. It was pla-ca-tan like this. So we no was…
16. Oral history interview with Gidon Arye
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0326 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0009
Date:
interview: 1989 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania.…
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 … Vilna, into an upper middle class family. At the time, approximately one third of Vilna’s residents were Jews. He lived with his father, a well…
17. Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė papers
1996.2.6 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.2.6
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2018
… invasion, anti-Communist pro-German Lithuanians initiated a violent pogrom against Jews in Kovno, whom they accused of being Soviet sympathizers. Three of…
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 … initiated a violent pogrom against Jews in Kovno, whom they accused of being Soviet sympathizers. Three of Sara's uncles, Isaac, Solomon and Abrasha…
18. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection
2013.503.1.1 Box 1 Folder 32 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.503.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-circa 2013
bulk: 1935-1950
…, often assisting German mobile killing squads, in which thousands of Jews were murdered. Kaunas was occupied on July 24. Rosian's paternal grandfather…
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 … trying to avoid the Polish Armija Krajowa, who also targeted Jews in the region. Following liberation, Bagriansky worked in Moscow representing Lithuanian…
19. Oral history interview with Bella Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1271.1 | RG Number: RG-50.119.0001
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … the terrible pressure, like an iron hammer on your head. Was it mostly to the Jews? Not only to the Jews. It was the atmosphere in the place. And all of…