Eliezer Yerushalmi papers

Identifier
irn49526
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.489.8
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49526

Extent and Medium

folders

13

Creator(s)

  • Eliezer Yerushalmi

Biographical History

Eliezer Yerushalmi was a teacher and a member of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Šiauliai (Shavli, in Yiddish) ghetto, in Lithuania. His diary account of life in the ghetto was published in 1950.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.

Acquired, June 2012.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of several manuscript and typescript drafts of writings by Yerushalmi describing events in the Šiauliai (Shavli) ghetto during the German occupation as well as other topics. Includes a manuscript text in a notebook, titled "Di geshikte fun Shavler geto un fun zefon Lita bekitzur;" manuscript drafts of several plays, including "Profesor Shuster;" and a draft of a novel, "Man iz im mekane di dira, a novele fun plitim in Italye," which is based on the lives of Jewish refugees in post-war Italy.

People

  • Yerushalmi, Eliezer, 1900-1962.

Subjects

  • Jews--Persecutions--Lithuania--Šiauliai.
  • Authors, Yiddish--Lithuania.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Šiauliai--Personal narratives.

Genre

  • Document
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