Stutthof concentration camp

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714541
• English, Hebrew
• Original 1 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Michal Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Lomza, Bialystok and other places Liquidation of the Bialystok Ghetto, 16 August 1943; deportation of inmates from Markowszczyzna to the prison in Bialystok during the liquidation; inmates' work in SS workshops outside the prison; transfer with other inmates from the Lomza prison to the Bialystok prison, late September 1943; attempts to escape by the inmates; capture of the escapees; murder of some of the escapees; arrest of non-Jews by the Gestapo; transfer of the detainees to...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714616
• English, Hebrew
• Original 2 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Miriam Robinson, born in Vilna, Lithuania, 1928, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Stutthof and other places Concentration of the Jews of the Vilna Ghetto on Rasa [?] Street in anticipation of the liquidation of the ghetto; liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, 29 March 1943; selection by Gestapo men; execution of three members of the Bund: Abrasha Chwojnik, Asia Bik and Yankiel Kaplan; deportation to Stutthof; transfer to other camps; call for revenge upon the Germans.

1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3552517
• English, Hebrew
• 1948
• Handwritten copy Handwritten, original 121 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Motl Kuricki, born in Anyksciai, Lithuania, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Daugavpils Ghetto, the Anyksciai Ghetto, the Siauliai Ghetto, Stutthof and Mueldorf Life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; Jewish youths join the Communist youth; German occupation; unsuccessful attempt to escape to Rokiskis; restrictions on the Jews; arrest of Jews, 28-29 June 1941; transfer of the Jews to a prison and synagogue; murder of Jews by Lithuanian perpetrators; rape of women; yellow badge; abuse of Jews; murder of men, 05 July 1941; escape from the killing pit and hidden in a L...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714215
• English, Hebrew
• Original 3 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Sarah Shawicz, born in Vilna, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kaiserwald and Stutthof Occupation of Vilna by the German Army, 24 June 1941; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; "Aktions"; deportation of Jews to Ponary; murder of Jews in Ponary; activities of the underground movement in the ghetto; activities of Yitzhak Wittenberg, commander of the Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye (FPO - United Partisan Organization); cultural life in the ghetto; forced labor in Biala Waka; liquidation of the ghetto, 24 September 1...

1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3731375
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 11 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Tania Sterntal, born in Warsaw, Poland, regarding her experiences in Warsaw, in the Kailis Ghetto, in Kaiserwald and Dundaga camps and more Life in Warsaw during the German occupation; escape to Belorussia; escape to Vilna, 1940; life in Vilna in an aliya training kibbutz; German occupation, 1941; life in the Vilna Ghetto; life in hiding; escape to Kailis; life in the Kailis Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and deportation together with the other Jews to Kaiserwald camp, 26 May 1944; camp life including standing naked at roll calls in front of SS officers; body searches in the...

1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3552411
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 5 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Toibe Gurvitz, born in Taurage, Lithuania, 1907, regarding her experiences in Taurage, Bousk, the Siauliai Ghetto; Stutthof, other places and hearsay testimony of the experiences of the Jews in Taurage Life in Taurage before the war. Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; air-raids; escape with the family in a Red Army truck; escape to Siauliai; German occupation; escape to Bousk; capture by the German Army; escape to Vasky; capture with Jews in a Lithuanian warehouse; payment of a bribe to a Lithuanian by her husband; release of her family; esc...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714497
• English, Hebrew
• Original
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Wiera Pietroczuk, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1906, regarding her experiences in Stutthof, Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck and other places Her mother's conversion to Christianity; her mother's marriage to a non-Jewish man. Work smuggling food into the Bialystok Ghetto; arrest; deportation to Stutthof; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz, 12 January 1944; selection by Dr. Mengele; transfer of women to the crematorium; names of those who perished; life in Auschwitz including forced labor until 02 November 1944; transfer to Ravensbrueck with other women; labor in an ammunition factory in Malcho...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714337
• English, Hebrew
• Typewritten copy 7 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Yudel Egber, born in Kreizberg, Poland, 1901, regarding his experiences in Riga Occupation of Riga by the German Army, 01 July 1941; escape of Jews from Riga; murder of the escapees by the Latvians; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation, eviction of Jews from their homes, yellow badge and arrest of Jews; abusive acts and murder of Jews by the Latvian police; desecration of cemeteries; burning of synagogues; establishment of the Riga Ghetto; sealing of the ghetto, 25 October 1941; appointment of a Judenrat; deportation of Jews to forced labor; deport...

1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3714603
• English, Hebrew
• Original
• Updated 6 years ago

Testimony of Zippa Goldberg, born in Zareby Koscielne, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Zareby Koscielne, Czyzew, Lomza and Stutthof Occupation of Zareby Koscielne by the German Army, 22 June 1941; deaths of approximately 100 Jews from air-raids; life in Zareby Koscielne including robbery of property and abuse; deportation to Czyzew, 12 August 1941; murder of Jews en route to Czyzew; throwing the bodies of those murdered into the killing pit; "Aktion" conducted by Germans and Polish policemen; escape of Jews, including the witness, from the "Aktion"; hidden by Poles; arrest; depor...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504255
• English
• folders 5 , 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
• Updated 1 year ago

The memoir describes Gizel Berman's childhood in Uz︠h︡horod, Ukraine, and Sobrance, Czechoslovakia, her schooling in Brussels, Belgium, the imprisonment and torture of Berman's boyfriend, Nick, her reunion with Nick and their marriage, their deportation to Auschwitz, Berman's transfer and life in Stutthof and her physical separation from her husband, her liberation and return to Uz︠h︡horod, her reunion with her husband, their immigration and assimilation into American culture, and their daughter's experiences with antisemitism.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn596981
• English
• 1948-1967
• 500,947 digital images,
• Updated 1 year ago

Selected trials of members of the Gestapo and the SD, soldiers, people who collaborated with Germans, high-ranking members of the French armed forces, and civilians accused of war crimes against humanity during WWII. The trials took place at the Military Tribunals in several places, e.g. Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Paris,Tunis, and others, and consider following subjects: Camps, Criminales de Guerre (Individuals tried for war crimes); Gestap-SD; Massacres. The trials did not necessarily took place in the geographical region where the crimes were committed. On the contrary, the trials a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn34862
• English
• overall: Height: 53.250 inches (135.255 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Wedding dress with green, thread embroidery worn by Raya Kirschner (later Feig), 19, for her May 27, 1948, wedding to Micky Feig, 22, in Barletta displaced persons camp in Italy. In August 1941, after Germany invaded Lithuania, Raya was interned with her father Meyer, a rabbi, her mother, who ran an orphanage, and her brother Beno in the Kovno ghetto. In October 1942, her father was selected for deportation to Riga, Latvia,and Raya's mother insisted the family go also. They were placed in Spilve camp and Raya, Meyer, and Beno were assigned to hard physical labor. In 1943, Beno was caught sm...

• The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
• WL1855
• English
• 1900-1957
• 1 folder
• Updated 2 years ago

This collection contains the papers of the Wegrzyn family who originally came from Galicia, Poland, but had moved to Berlin by the 1920s. The family fled Nazi persecution against Jews by emigrating to Shanghai shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.Wegrzyn family papers including are marriage and birth certificates, tax clearance certificate, driving licences, family register and an album of family photographs. Also included is correspondence from Chaja Wegrzyn's sister Grete Harpuder from Berlin and from relatives in Galicia concerning their constant hopes and efforts for emig...

1. Beryl and Marian Miklin collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513162
• English
• overall: Height: 75.125 inches (190.818 cm) | Width: 61.500 inches (156.21 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

One of two wool blankets found by Ber (later Beryl) Miklin, and used during and after a death march from Stutthof concentration camp in January 1945. Originally green, Ber dyed this blanket blue and used the other to make a pair of pants. Ber, his wife, parents, two sisters, and two brothers were forced into the Riga ghetto in Latvia in September 1941 by the German occupying forces. Ber’s mother and wife died, and his youngest brother fled to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Ber and his elder brother were transported to the Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp in August 1943, and were assigned to forced...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500878
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The memoir of Zalman Lubocki of Kaunas, Lithuania is his eyewitness account of the German invasion in June 1941, life in the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, imprisonment at Stutthof, hard labor, liberation, and his arrival as a displaced person at Landsberg, Germany. The collection is comprised of the original copy of the 100 page memoir written in Yiddish in 1945 when Zalman was living in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.