Kruk Herman

• 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...

1. Rinkinių apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

• Album with fragments from Herman Kruk diary, 1941-1943

• Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
• VŽM 4671
• Multiple
• 1941-1943
• Album, 27 pages with fragments of paper pieces
• Updated 3 years ago

Pages from the second copy which remained in Vilnius ghetto library. The diary was dictated by Kruk to his secretary Rokhl Mendelsund-Kowarski. Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of Vilnius in a chronical manner.

• Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die besetzten Gebiete Arbeitsgruppe Litauen
• Vilnius Branch of the Rosenberg Operative Command of the Lithuanian General Region

• Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas
• F. R-633
• English
• 1941-1944
• One subfonds and 30 files. Documents are microfilmed.
• Updated 9 years ago

"Documents about the looting of Jewish cultural valuables in Lithuania are very scarce"(Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai : holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania, Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, 2011, p. 11. Correspondence of the Rosenberg Operative Command in Lithuania concerning various questions and research, reports of the Herman Kruk working groups in the Vilnius ghetto about the activities of the collecting of the valuables, reports o...