Sender Wajsman papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Sender Wajsman donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives via Jeshajahu Weinberg, Museum Director, September 1991.
Scope and Content
Contains a copyprint of a photograph of a wedding gathering in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1936; a brief testimony by Sender Wajsman dated 1991 describing the massacre if Jews in Ponary in September 1941 at the hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians under the direction of the Gestapo; and a photocopy of a photograph depicting the memorial to the dead in Ponary.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is chronological
People
- Wajsman, Sender.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
Subjects
- Holocaust memorials--Lithuania.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Paneriai (Lithuania)
- Executions and executioners--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.