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1. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
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 …. Kozel’sk (Russia : Concentration camp) Jews-- Lithuania--Vilnius. Prisoners of War--Soviet Union. Katyn massacre, Katyn’, Russia, 1940 Holocaust, Jewish…
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2. Sender Wajsman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0024 | RG Number: RG-26.001
Date:
1936-1991
… the massacre if Jews in Ponary in September 1941 at the hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians under the direction of the Gestapo; and a photocopy of a…
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 …; a brief testimony by Sender Wajsman dated 1991 describing the massacre if Jews in Ponary in September 1941 at the hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians…
3. Shalom Cholawski personal archives (RG-95-82)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.107 | RG Number: RG-68.157
Date:
inclusive: 1897-2003
Subtitle:
שלום חולבסקי, ארכיון אישי
… several historical works about the partisans in Belarus, including "The Jews of Bielorussia during World War II" (1998).…
4. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
… certificates; wartime correspondence of Jacob Ettlinger, a German Jew living in Stockholm who worked with several aid organizations and assisted Jewish refugees…
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 … Jew living in Stockholm who worked with several aid organizations and assisted Jewish refugees, including Carl and his mother Rachel Rosner; and…
5. Anti-Jewish Acts in Baltic States
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0081 | Film ID: 140
Date:
Event: 1941-1943
Duration:
00:02:40
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
6. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
… regarding Anton Schmid, a rescuer of Jews from the Vilna ghetto; correspondence between Pabst, Wieninger, and Rolnikaite; “Stena Placha,” a poem by I. Kushkin…
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 … translation of the song into Russian. Also included are articles by Christine M. Pabst and Manfred Wieninger regarding Anton Schmid, a rescuer of Jews from the…
7. Abba Kovner personal archives (RG-95-61)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.106 | RG Number: RG-68.156
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1993
Subtitle:
אבא קובנר, ארכיון אישי
… Jewish partisan unit in the Rudninkai Forest. He is well-known for the manifesto he wrote in December 1941, in which he appealed to other Jews "Let us not…
8. Rabinowitsch family papers
2011.443.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 94
Document | Accession Number: 2011.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
…World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Lithuania.…
9. Vilnius Sipo und SD ( Fond R -1673/1)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.207 | RG Number: RG-26.045M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius--History--20th century.…
10. Stadtkommandant Vilnius, Fond R-689/1,3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.194 | RG Number: RG-26.032M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--History--20th century.…
11. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
… (b. 1925, later Eda Golde). During the interwar years as life became difficult for Jews in Wilno, her father began to lose business and struggle…
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 … sister Eta (b. 1925, later Eda Golde). During the interwar years as life became difficult for Jews in Wilno, her father began to lose business and struggle…
12. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers
2016.204.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
bulk: 1943-1968
… organizations. In June 1941, Germany launched an invasion of the Soviet Union. Germans forces occupied Vilna on June 24. There were widespread attacks on Jews by…
13. Archivo de Shmerke Kaczerginski
Document | Accession Number: 2012.84 | RG Number: RG-72.016M
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1954
…Jews--Lithuania--History--20th century.…
14. Factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
2018.395.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.2
Date:
use: after 1941 September 01-before 1945 May 09
… time, Jews comprised almost a quarter of the Krakow population and Emanuel became familiar with Yiddish culture as a child. He attended the gymnasium of…
15. Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania (RG-4-2)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.113 | RG Number: RG-68.163
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1980
Subtitle:
השומר הצעיר בליטא
…Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Europe--History--20th century.…
16. Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.334 | RG Number: RG-67.042M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1950
bulk: 1939-1944
…Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Vilnius--History--20th century--Registers.…
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 … decrees: Jews had to wear special bands and later on, the yellow badge; they could not change their living quarters, use the sidewalks, public…
17. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… would often take walks around the city. Vilna had a large Jewish population and was a center of Jewish culture. Chaim was a secular Jew with socialist…
18. Tree trunk from the Rudniki Forest
Object | Accession Number: 1992.100.1
Date:
use: approximately 1943 September-approximately 1944 June
… laborers, forged documents for fellow Jews, and smuggled weapons into the ghetto. In September 1943, as the final liquidation of the ghetto began, resistance…
19. Tree trunk from the Rudniki Forest
Object | Accession Number: 1992.100.8
Date:
use: approximately 1943 September-approximately 1944 June
… laborers, forged documents for fellow Jews, and smuggled weapons into the ghetto. In September 1943, as the final liquidation of the ghetto began, resistance…
20. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… eastern route to Asia, one of the two remaining ways for Jews to leave. In order to acquire an exit visa from Soviet-controlled Lithuania, Sara’s family…