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

Identifier
990004820790304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1940
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Testimony of Lejzer-Isaac Gottlieb, a yeshiva student from Mir. He left Opatów two days before the Germans entered it, for Bialystok. He describes the German aerial bombardment, and a flood of refugees into Bialystok, as well as the burning of Torah scrolls by the Germans. He fled on through Vawkavysk, and eventually found the Soviets in Navahrudak, where he notes Polish resistance and shots fired by partisans. He mentions the rumours f the burning of several Jewish communities by the germans' bombardment or soldier actions, but cannot confirm these rumors. Protocol No. 28 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 access only

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

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