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This collection contains "the important confidential circular No. 3 of 16 August 1941 signed by V. Reivytis, director of the Police Department, sent to the police chiefs of the counties concerning the detention, rounding up, and guarding of male Jews. Essentially, it meant the beginning of the mass extermination of the Jews in Lithuanian provinces. The same collection contains reports by the police ...

Contains a studio portrait of Chaim Aron Kaplan (on left wearing bow tie and glasses) [donor's paternal great uncle], Sarah Kaplan Trobovich [donor's paternal great aunt, half-sister of Chaim and Harry], and Harry Kaplan [donor's paternal grandfather and brother of Chaim]; dated 1921; Brooklyn, NY.

Contains selected records of Fond R-973 (Jewish ghetto police in Kaunas, reels 1–51), including police daily reports, statistics, correspondence, investigations and the ghetto court cases relating to events in Kaunas ghetto, including activities of armed Lithuanian “partisans." Includes registration books of investigation cases, listing and personal files of ghetto police, various police officer lists, ...

A memoir compiled by Rosalie Gerut describing the experiences of her father, Aryed-Leyb (Leybl) Fingerhut, in Švenčionėliai, Lithuania, Siauliai,Lithuania, and Kremenchug, Soviet Union (currently, Ukraine); his interest in music and the Yiddish language; his work as a researcher for YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in Vilnius (currently Vilna, Lithuania); his memories of the German invasion of ...

VVGŽM HE F. 159-14. Vilnius. 1 page, statistics about people from Vilnius killed or moved to Germany for forced labour (1941-1945). F. 159-11. Vilnius. 10 pages, list No 1 of 649 Jews killed (24/6/ 1941-13/7/1944); 13 pages, list No 2 of 683 Jews killed (24/6/ 1941-13/7/1944); 4 pages, list No 3 of 220 Jews killed (24/6/ 1941-13/7/1944); 14 pages, list No 4 of 759 Jews killed (24/6/ 1941-13/7/1944); ...

Francie Alpert (1931-2014) was born Fernande Waligora on 13 May 1931 in Paris, France to Szmul and Rose Waligora. Szmul Loeb Waligora (also referred to as Samuel, 1899-1942) was born in Sokołów Podlaski, Poland on 9 March 1899 and worked as a tailor. Rose Waligora (née Kunigis, also referred to as Rishkeh, 1903-1947) was born Rysha Kuniges in 1903 in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) to Abraham and ...

Instructions, circulars, correspondence, reports, forms related to emigration policy, organization of transporting emigrants by the shipping companies to Palestine and US, emigration of Polish refugees to Canada and Jamaica, migration of Polish expatriates by Great Britain, migration of the English population, and Jewish minorities in Poland. Includes a letter requesting a return of the Baron Günzburg's ...

This collection contains materials relating to the Vilna ghetto, its daily life and living conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and the Jewish interaction with the German and Lithuanian authorities.The records consists of: maps of the ghetto, 1942, diaries, chronicles and manuscripts on the history of the ghetto by Zelig Kalmanovitch, Herman ...

"In the summer of 2016 acclaimed archaeologist Richard Freund and his team made news worldwide when they discovered an escape tunnel from the Ponar burial pits in Lithuania. This Holocaust site where more than 100,000 people perished is usually remembered for the terrible devastation that happened there. In the midst of this devastation, the discovery of an escape tunnel reminds us of the determination ...

Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), Yiddish writer and cultural activist, born in Vilna, Lithuania. orphaned at age six and raised by his grandfather, Kaczerginski learned the lithographer's trade. As a youth, he was involved with outlawed Communist groups and was arrested several times, serving a lengthy prison term. In the 1930s, two of his revolutionary poems became popular in Poland. He wrote short ...