[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]
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1 electronic resource (11 pages)
Creator(s)
- קאמיטעט צו זאמלען מאטעריאלן וועגן יידישן חורבן אין פוילן 1939
- Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939
- ד.ק., 1915-
Scope and Content
Testimony of D. K.. 25 year old yeshiva student in the Kleck yeshiva, resident of Brisk. He describes the heavy bombardment of the German planes, and the incendiaries which destroyed parts of the city, and led to multiple casualties. The Germans occupied Brisk and conscripted both Jews and Poles to forced labor, forced Jews to open stores on the Sabbath, and looted Jewish businesses. They detained many in the city but the detainees were freed when the Russians were about to take over the city. The Russians in their turn detained ethnic Germans in a camp and shot several as spies for the Germans. Protocol No. 124 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.
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Mode of access: WWW
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Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 29.1.18
Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Belarus--Brest.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, German.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives
- Jewish refugees--Lithuania--Vilnius--Interviews.
Places
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Poland--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Poland.