Kaczerginski Shmerke

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500934
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Typescript text in Hebrew, from 1940s.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn90256
• English
• 1939-1944
• 6,339 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
• Updated 1 year ago

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 Kruk, Yitschak Rudashevsky, Szmerke Kaczerginski, personal identification documents such as badges, armbands, identification cards, passes; materials on the ghetto administration and its divisio...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47082
• English
• 1908-1954
• 2,533 digital images, JPEG 3 microfilm reels, 35 mm 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection contains personal papers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), former partisan and collector of Jewish music: i.d. documents, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and secondary sources such as clippings and publications about Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's book, "Destruction of Jewish Vilna", published in New York in 1947).

1. Oral history interviews of the Centro de Documentatión e Información sobre Judaismo Argentino "Marc Turkow" collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42883
• English
• 1 CD-ROM,
• Updated 1 year ago

1. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502859
• English
• 12 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
• Updated 1 year ago

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 4019607
• English, Hebrew
• Diary Letter Musical notes Play(s), script(s) Poems/Songs Research article Testimony
• Updated 12 months ago

P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954 Shmaryahu Kaczerginski was born in Vilna in 1908. From a very young age, he started to write and publish poetry and stories. Kaczerginski was one of the founders and activists in "Young Vilna", a group of young Yiddish poets in Vilna, and he was also active in the Communist movement. Even when he was a young man, some of his poems were adopted by the Jews of Vilna and Poland, and these poems became the folk songs sung by many of the Jews. In 1942, after about a year of hiding from the Germans, Kaczerginski r...