[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (3 Pages)
Creator(s)
- Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939
- פערקאל,שלמה, 1915-
Scope and Content
Protocol No. 10 is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. In 1939 they formed a comittee to collect evidence about the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi Germany occupation. Protocol No 10 is in Yiddish and given by Shlomo Ferkal (24 yrs., living in Vilnuius / Lithuania). In it he describes how in September 1939 his town Mezhirichi was bombed by the Nazis and how he was fled towards Kovel. He is depicts the bombardements of civilians/ refugees, the life of the refugees and the treatment of Jews by non-jewish citizens.
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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Mode of access: WWW
Note(s)
Electronic access only
Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 06.04.2016
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives
- Jews, Polish--Lithuania--Vilnius--Interviews.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
Places
- Siedlce (Poland)
- Kowal (Poland)
- Chełm (Lublin, Poland)
- Międzyrzecz