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1. Oral history interview with Dov Levin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0298
Date:
interview: 1994 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… on November 10, 1994. This interview is one of 51 oral histories included in the Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance.…
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 … of Lithuania, because Wilno was occupied by the Polish soldiers and so on. So, in 1925, it was still a Jewish autonomy, Lithuania. So, if I would lucky…
2. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.05
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
…. They had essentially the same tasks as the Einsatzkommandos. At the beginning of the Polish campaign in September 1939, first in the General Government…
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 … such as copies of documents and maps. Includes information on police activities against partisans and other resistance efforts in the Occupied Eastern…
3. Oral history interview with Elieyzer Zilber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.179 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0179
Date:
interview: 1993 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 …. Collected weapons. Carried out bombings. 1.53 Mentions various books that have come out on Kaunos ghetto and the ghetto resistance, and in role of Lithuanian…
4. Oral history interview with Shlomo Levin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.305 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0305
Date:
interview: 1996 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. 02:28:07 When Polish refugees began arriving, the…
5. Oral history interview with Edna B. Ipson
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0358
Date:
interview: 1995 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… surrounding the ghetto; going into hiding with one of the Christian farmers she had met; finding another hiding place in the home of a Polish Catholic family…
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 … aware, in the ghetto, of any people who were sort of in an underground group of resistance? A: Oh, there was underground people, too. Q: Did you know them…
6. Oral history interview with Yehuda Beilis
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.349 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0349
Date:
interview: 1999 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … Betar Zionist movement trained him in sabotage, and he led resistance movements. He saved 22 children from the ghetto, with the help of a priest. Yehuda…
7. Oral history interview with Zhenja Gurevich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.286 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0286
Date:
interview: 1996 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … Germans in Svencionys. 1:29:36 All the town Jews were moved to a former Polish military camp in Poligon. 2:05:12 Zhenya’s mother manages to remove Zhenya…
8. Oral history interview with Solly Ganor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.268 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0268
Date:
interview: 1995 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … the gathering point, including Soli’s aunt and uncle. 21.35 They died there, in very harsh work conditions. 23.00 Beginning of Jewish resistance in the…
9. Oral history interview with Ina Sagen Zigelman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.169.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0242
Date:
interview: 2015 May 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… involved in the underground teaching young children at night; repairing German soldiers’ uniforms and stealing the insignias to give to the resistance; not…
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 … grandfather belonged to a very old shul. It was called the Polish shul. I don’t know why. My mother didn’t go there. The women were completely separate from the…
10. Oral history interview with Samuel Rozin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.368 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0368
Date:
interview: 2000 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … German (because of the workers). Russian and Polish were also spoken. 27:16 Samuel describes his study of arts in the evening. Some of his teachers were…
11. 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
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … Germans were coming. Did you know something about the Germans before, what happened in Poland? Well, naturally because there were a lot of Polish Jews who…
12. Oral history interview with Meir Tzoref
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.334 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0334
Date:
interview: 1998 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … ghetto’s work, kidnappings, and deportations and the ineffectiveness of the Judenrat. However, in an effort to resist, Meir and others organized an…
13. Oral history interview with Uri Chanoch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.265 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0265
Date:
interview: 1995 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 … town had some electricity powered by a generator owned by a Polish man. After he went bankrupt, the town had no more electricity. But the radio still…
14. Oral history interview with Ze'ev Galperin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.324 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0324
Date:
interview: 1997 February 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.…
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 …. Polish refugees arrived and they heard about the fate of the Jews under the Germans. The Russians closed Jewish schools and he then went to a regular…
15. 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
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 … and Holland, but here they...they were getting very resistance, you see. So the German himself had an interest in the Kovno ghetto operation because it…
16. Formal, patterned kimono and shibori obi owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… Pesach worked as a harness maker and saddler supplying Polish Cavalry units. Slawa completed her schooling and graduated from the local university. Later…
17. 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
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 … watch showed...showed him the watch and told him what time it was. They said, "Well, give me that watch immediately." And my brother kind of resisted, so…
18. Oral history interview with Aleksandras Icikavičius
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0221.240 | RG Number: RG-50.473.0240
Date:
interview: 2010 March 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … travels—as you were traversed towns—did you ever see any instances of violence against Jews, Polish or other civilians? A: I saw it in Pskov. Before we were…
19. Oral history interview with Samuel Schalkowsky
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.528.1 | RG Number: RG-50.924.0001
Date:
interview: 2007 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … limiting, that one resists after a while? A: Well, you resist by not dwelling on it with other people. But you can’t avoid it. You– I mean, with– To find…
20. Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky diaries
2017.103.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 2017.103.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 …[ithuanians]. What a determined fly, it plans to defeat the elephant. The R[ussians] have taken the town of Korostin, 60 kilometers from the Polish border. The…