From the Lida ghetto to the Bielski partisans
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received a copy of the translated memoir in Aug. 1994.
Scope and Content
Written in 1984, the text describes Liza Ettinger's life in Lida, Poland (now Belarus), before the outbreak of World War II; the Soviet occupation of Poland; the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; the death of her husband at Paneriai (Ponary), Lithuania; her internment in the ghettos in Vilnius and Lida, Lithuania; surviving a "selektion;" joining the partisans; and the end of the war.
People
- Ettinger, Liza.
Subjects
- Jewish ghettos--Lithuania--Vilnius.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Guerrillas.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Jewish ghettos--Belarus--Lida.
Genre
- Document
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