[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

Identifier
990004812940304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Scope and Content

Testimony of N. K., 17 year old student from Warsaw. He describes the repressions and orders on Jews after the German occupying forces entered Warsaw; Jews had to give up their radios, and were forbidden from having more than 2000 zloty in their possession. Monetary fines were imposed and a curfew set in place punishable by shooting. The Jews were forbidden to live in certain streets, and restricted from purchasing new housing in others. He describes seizures of Jews for forced labor and the resulting deaths and physical damage as a consequence, as well as the closing of Jewish businesses, schools and restaurants.Protocol No. 39 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation.

Conditions Governing Access

Access may be restricted to TAU community via Automatic Proxy

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Mode of access: WWW

Note(s)

  • Many corrections and erasures in text

  • Electronic access only

  • Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015

  • Title viewed 31.12.17

Subjects

Places

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.