[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]
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- קאמיטעט צו זאמלען מאטעריאלן וועגן יידישן חורבן אין פוילן 1939
- Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939
- אי., ישראל
Scope and Content
Testimony of Israel I., a yeshiva student from Lida, left October 22, 1939 with his yeshiva which relocated communally from Kleck to Vilnius. He describes German bombardment of the city, which resulted in over 60 casualties, Jews and Christians. The Polish military left the city, leaving it to a local militia, which consisted of both Jews and Poles, led by a local Polish dignitary. There were rumors that the Polish population was planning a pogrom, but nothing happened. The Soviets entered the city in mid-September and were generally well-inclined to the Jewish population. Life in the city was normal. Protocol No. 118 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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Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
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Subjects
- Jews--Persecutions--Belarus--Lida.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Kleck.
- World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operation German--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives
- Jewish refugees--Lithuania--Vilnius--Interviews.
Places
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Poland.
- Poland--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.