From the Lida ghetto to the Bielski partisans

Identifier
irn504154
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0219
  • RG-02.133
Dates
1 Jan 1984 - 31 Dec 1984
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

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Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received a copy of the translated memoir in Aug. 1994.

Scope and Content

Written in 1984, the text describes Liza Ettinger's life in Lida, Poland (now Belarus), before the outbreak of World War II; the Soviet occupation of Poland; the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; the death of her husband at Paneriai (Ponary), Lithuania; her internment in the ghettos in Vilnius and Lida, Lithuania; surviving a "selektion;" joining the partisans; and the end of the war.

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