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

Identifier
990004810780304146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

Scope and Content

Testimony of Avraham Mlotek, 31 year old from Warsaw. He describes leaving Warsaw with two friends on September 7th. He describes bombardments and destruction, and Jews fleeing from towns. He made his way through Wawer, Międzyrzec Podlaski and Biala, where heavy bombardments resulted in destruction, fear and injuries, and onto a passenger train which was shot on by the Red Army at the border. Protocol No. 20 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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Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Mode of access: WWW

Note(s)

  • Electronic access only

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

  • Title viewed 11.12.17

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