[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]
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Creator(s)
- קאמיטעט צו זאמלען מאטעריאלן וועגן יידישן חורבן אין פוילן 1939
- Committee for collecting material about the destruction of the Jews in Poland, 1939
- גאטליב, ליזער-יצחק
Scope and Content
Testimony of Lejzer-Isaac Gottlieb, a yeshiva student from Mir. He left Opatów two days before the Germans entered it, for Bialystok. He describes the German aerial bombardment, and a flood of refugees into Bialystok, as well as the burning of Torah scrolls by the Germans. He fled on through Vawkavysk, and eventually found the Soviets in Navahrudak, where he notes Polish resistance and shots fired by partisans. He mentions the rumours f the burning of several Jewish communities by the germans' bombardment or soldier actions, but cannot confirm these rumors. Protocol No. 28 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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Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015
Title viewed 30.1.18
Subjects
- Jewish refugees--Belarus--Navahrudak.
- Jewish refugees--Poland--Opatów.
- Jewish refugees--Lithuania--Vaŭkavysk.
- Jews--Persecutions--Belarus--Mir.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives
- Jewish refugees--Lithuania--Vilnius--Interviews.
Places
- Poland--History, Naval--20th century.
- Poland--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--Poland.