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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. Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius photographs
1996.A.0159.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0159.2
Date:
inclusive: 1926-circa 1983
… his grandmother in a hidden space below their house, Jonas and Antonina decided to help shelter other Jews from the Kovno Ghetto and nearby labor camps…
3. Musia Gershenman testimony
1996.H.0480 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.H.0480
Date:
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… Jews were also hidden, but Musia was not able to rescue her mother. After Kovno was liberated by the Red Army, Musia and Aaron immigrated to Palestine…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. Oral history interview with Rosa Fridman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.127 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0127
Date:
interview: 1991 January 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… going to Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania to study; losing her mother and brother during the war; living under the German occupation; the persecution of Jews…
7. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… unsuccessful. As persecution against Jews by the Nazis increased, the family was moved into the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto. In 1940, Irving was arrested with several…
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 … between 1945 and 1949. These articles are primarily in Yiddish and describes the situations of surviving Jews in Germany. Also included in this collection…
8. Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (GK 227)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.48.1 | RG Number: RG-15.689
Date:
inclusive: 1947-1949
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Court of Appeals in Warsaw
… committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31…
9. Council of the Jewish community of Kaunas, Lithuania (Fond 1231)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.688 | RG Number: RG-26.006M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Lithuanian rabbis ( file 49-166); statistics about Jewish agricultural workers; unemployed Jews; Jewish primary schools; birth, death, marriage, and divorce…
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 …; card files of Lithuanian rabbis ( file 49‐166); statistics about Jewish agricultural workers; unemployed Jews; Jewish primary schools; birth, death…
10. Oral history interview with Abe Resnick
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0292
Date:
interview: 1994 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Czechoslovakian Jews being transported into the Kaunas ghetto to enter its forced labor brigades in 1941; having little awareness as to what was happening to…
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 … relationship between Jews and Lithuanians was very, very cordial, you know, very nice, they were very friendly, and we had never had any – any big sense of http…
11. 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…
12. Oral history interview with Rita Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.12.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0743
Date:
interview: 2014 February 20
interview: 2014 May 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Among the Nations because of her efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust; an unsuccessful attempt by the Gestapo to get information from her about her…
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 … saved other Jews from Šiauliai during WWII. A prominent surgeon, Rita's new adopted father/real uncle Jurgis Žilinskas, at first brought her to Vilnius…
13. Oral history interview with Goldie Rassen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.724 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0724
Date:
interview: 1990 November 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to find the community in ruins and German families living in the homes of Jews who had been deported, and emigrating with her husband to the United…
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 … IN THE SHTETL. 28 TELL ME WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR YOU RASSEN A. WHEN THE FIRST WORLD WAR STARTED THE JEWS WERE THEN ENEMIES OF THE GERMANS. NO. THEY…
14. 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…
15. Oral history interview with Shemshihu Spivack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.152 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0152
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… placing all Jews in the ghetto in Kaunas; going out and trading goods of other ghetto residents for food; the Altestenrat dividing the community and the…
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 … was a complex person. When he went to Israel, he didn't go like a halutz, like [NON-ENGLISH], dedicated. He was a Jew. He was a good Jew. And he was…
16. Oral testimony of Abe Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.7 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0007
Date:
interview: 1988-1989
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… crying and betraying their location; the demand by the Germans for the Jews’ furs and jewelry; being transported to Germany on a cattle car; going first to…
17. Oral history interview with Dr. Joel Elkes
Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.604.6 | RG Number: RG-50.641.0008
Date:
interview: approximately 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… occupation in Lithuania; conflict between Zionists and Yiddishists; the transportation of many Jews to Siberia; remaining with his father in Kovno; his father…
18. Oral history interview with Luba Olenski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.35 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0035
Date:
interview: 1996 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for by relatives; the liquidation of the ghetto on August 15, 1943 and how the 60,000 remaining Jews were put on transports to Treblinka concentration…
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 …,000 remaining Jews were put on transports to Treblinka, concentration camp in Poland. Luba escaped the transport, and wandered the countryside, gaining help from…
19. 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…
20. Oral history interview with Abraham Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.19 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0019
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto during which many of the remaining Jews were massacred by Lithuanian collaborators; his family's transport to Stutthof concentration camp and…
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 … nothing. 36 00:01:52,535 --> 00:01:55,510 A Jew was next to nothing. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…