Kaczerginski Shmerke

שמריהו קצ'רגינסקי
‏קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע.

Kaczerginski, Szmerke
Ḳaṭsherginsḳi, Shmerḳe, 1908-1954
קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע, 1908-1954
Kaczerginski, Shmerke, 1908-1954
קצ'רגינסקי, שמרקה, 1908-1954
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Identifier: 000198
Type of Entity: Person

Dates of Existence

1908

1954

History

Jewish writer and poet, partisan fighter, took an active part in the cultural life and the education of the youth in the Vilnius Ghetto, eminent collector of the Yiddish Shoah song, survivor of Vilnius ghetto.

Places

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Abraham and Rachela Melezin collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn500934
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Typescript text in Hebrew, from 1940s.
Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn90256
- English
- 1939-1950
- 6,339 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm
- Updated 7 months ago
This collection contains materials relating to the Vilna ghetto, its daily life and living conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and the Jewish interaction with the German and Lithuanian authorities.The records consists of: maps of the ghetto, 1942, diaries, chronicles and manuscripts on the history of the ghetto by Zelig Kalmanovitch, Herman Kruk, Yitschak Rudashevsky, Szmerke Kaczerginski, personal identification documents such as badges, armbands, identification cards, passes; materials on the ghetto administration and its divisio...
Archivo de Shmerke Kaczerginski
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47082
- English
- 1908-1954
- 2,533 digital images, JPEG 3 microfilm reels, 35 mm 1 DVD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
- Updated 7 months ago
This collection contains personal papers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), former partisan and collector of Jewish music: i.d. documents, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and secondary sources such as clippings and publications about Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's book, "Destruction of Jewish Vilna", published in New York in 1947).
Escape
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 5 years ago
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Forced labour
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 5 years ago
- Broader Terms
- Forced labour, Deportation, Ghettos, Camps and Final Solution Camps
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Underground organisations
- EHRI Terms
- English
- Updated 5 years ago
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- Resistance organisations
- Underground
Ghettos
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- English
- Updated 5 years ago
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- Forced labour, Deportation, Ghettos, Camps and Final Solution Camps
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Vilna Ghetto
- EHRI Ghettos
- English
- Updated 2 years ago
Holocaust survivors
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- English
- Updated 2 years ago
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- Postwar period
- People
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Persecution of Jews
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- English
- Updated 2 months ago
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- Persecution
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P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 4019607
- English, Hebrew
- Diary Letter Musical notes Play(s), script(s) Poems/Songs Research article Testimony
- Updated 3 months ago
P.18 - Kaczerginski Collection: Documentation regarding the Vilna Ghetto, 1941-1954 Shmaryahu Kaczerginski was born in Vilna in 1908. From a very young age, he started to write and publish poetry and stories. Kaczerginski was one of the founders and activists in "Young Vilna", a group of young Yiddish poets in Vilna, and he was also active in the Communist movement. Even when he was a young man, some of his poems were adopted by the Jews of Vilna and Poland, and these poems became the folk songs sung by many of the Jews. In 1942, after about a year of hiding from the Germans, Kaczerginski r...
Lithuania--Vilnius
- FAST Subjects
- English
- Updated 9 years ago
Oral history interview with Jacobo Garberis
1. Oral history interviews of the Centro de Documentatión e Información sobre Judaismo Argentino "Marc Turkow" collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn42883
- English
- 1 CD-ROM,
- Updated 7 months ago
Oral history interview with Moshe Shutan
1. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502859
- English
- 12 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
- Updated 7 months ago
Yiddish poetry
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- English
- Updated 6 years ago
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- Yiddish Literature
Riga-Kaiserwald concentration camp
- EHRI Camps
- English
- Updated 3 years ago
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World War (1939-1945)
- FAST Subjects
- English
- Updated 9 years ago
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- YIVO
- EHRI Corporate Bodies
- Corporate Body
- 1925
- Updated 8 years ago
From 1925 to the present

In 1925, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in Vilna (Wilno, Poland; now Vilnius, Lithuania), by key European intellectuals, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, to record the history and pioneer in the critical study of the language, literature and culture of the Jews of Eastern Europe. From its inception, YIVO was deeply concerned that the language and culture of East European Jewry were undergoing radical change in a rapidly modernizing world. YIVO's founders were tireless in collecting the documents and archival records of Jewish communities across Eastern Europe...