 |
|
| Contents | |
| Lida Uezd Homepage | |
| Lida Uezd History | |
| Lida Uezd Towns | |
| Lida
Uezd Maps |
|
| Searchable
Databases |
|
| Lida
Uezd
during the Holocaust |
|
| JewishGen
Home Page |
|
| KehilaLinks
Home Page |
|
|
|
LIDA UEZD HOLOCAUST LINKS 28 or 29 June 1941: German troops occupied Lida; about 80% of destroyed city forcibly cleared by Jews May 8-12, 1942: Mass executions September 11-14, 1943: Lida Ghetto liquidated LIDA DISTRICT,
General information:
YAHAD IN UNUM is still collecting testimonies about WWII persecutions from witnesses in Eastern Europe. To see the videos, you have to become a registered user (2017), but there are interesting summaries and still photos for each locality. (To find the page to register, pick a town of interest from the search page link just after this description. A still picture from the town comes up, with thumbnails underneath, indicating other pictures to view. Just below that, it says, "To access full (non-subtitled) videos of witness testimony for a village, please visit the Registered users area". Follow the link.) Search from https://yahadmap.org/#map/ There is information on the following Lida towns Be sure to pick Belarus as country. As of 2018, short video clips are on some of these pages, which contain links.
WAR
CRIMES o Reports of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission - Lida o
List
of Victims https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/vas-martyrs.htm o
Summary
of War Crimes proceedings Lida District https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/crimes-sum.htm o
Trial
of Dr. Filbert et al, war crimes in the Lida area committed by the Einsatzgruppen. Victims in Report of the Soviet
Extraordinary Commission https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/crimes-sum.htm o
War
Crimes Indictment for Lida District by Leopold Windisch
and Rudolf Werner https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/winwer-tit.htm oOperation Hermann https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/opherm.htm oList of German officers in charge of occupied towns in Grodno district including some Lida towns. According to the Wayback Machine, this page was removed in 2007. The list can be retrieved by trial & error:
YAD
VASHEM https://www.yadvashem.org/ o
database
of Holocaust Victims o
Holocaust
in Lida log of partisan unit in Rudnicki
Forest, 1943-4, target Grodno-Vilna Railroad.
Search Yad
Vashem site
for Rudnicki and
partisan. https://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/partisanfor.html Another portion of a partisan's memoirs: J. Jaffe,
Partizanim
("Partisans"), Tel Aviv, 1951, pp. 24-25, 70-72. o
Extract
of operations log of partisan unit active in the Lida and other areas
on Yad Vashem web site. Unfortunately
this has been removed from the site. o Portion of partisan diary mentions Zhetl, Lida and the Bielskis. This, too, has been removed from the site.
o Yad Vashem's "Untold Stories" of Holocaust murder sites in the former USSR. Use the "countries" pull down, pick Belarus, and a list will show, including Belica, Zoludek, Iwje, Lida, Rozanka, Radun, Wasiliiszki, Woronow. Belarus is the only country for which the countries pull down works. To find Eisiskes, select communities & scroll through the choices to Ejszyszki.
Review of "Journeys with my Mother" (Halina Rubin) , born in Warsaw, passing through Lida to the partisans in the area.
o partisan activities of Dr. Yehaskel Atlas included blowing up Lida-Grodno railway line https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0002_0_01561.html o
Underground
activities of Joseph Kaplan
including illegal border-crossing point in Lida September 1939/ The
Wiesenthal Center has
information both on Kaplan and his activity. o
German
Sergeant Anton Schmid
saved Jews in Vilnius, by, among other things, sending them to slightly
safer places in the Lida area. https://alexanderandsonsrestorations.com/a-good-man-in-vilnius/
& https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Schmid
o partisan activities of the Bielski brothers. oYoutube videos of Bielski partisan descendants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuGHzxJaFg&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mALoHWfVoE&t=76s o "Who killed Lida's Jewish Intelligentsia?" Full article is for pay. You can try the author, David W. Wildermuth, for a pdf. o The Holocaust travails Benjamin Efroimovich Eruzalim (Jerusalem) from Grodno, which took him through Lida
o Lida is mentioned in Einsatzgruppen reports 13 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/operational-situation-report-ussr-no-13 ,or here 17 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/operational-situation-report-ussr-no-17 or here, and
21 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/operational-situation-report-ussr-no-21 o
Lejzor
Stolicki,
chief of Jewish Ghetto police, killed September 1943 From the
Wiesenthal Center website. Due to frequent reorganizations, I cannot
maintain these links. Use a web search to find them, incorporating the
search term Wiesenthal. o Residents of some of the towns in the Lida area were forced to Ozery before they were murdered.
Holocaust in Lida. The article references a diary of Josepha Kleidinst, teacher at a Gymnasium giving April 22, 1942 as the day of the mass murders in Lida. The photograph that accompanies the above article doesn't seem to be in Lida, as the photos accompanying this page on Holocaust monuments are different. Indictment
against Schulz-Isenbeck
for participation in the mass murder of about 90 Jewish men in Lida on
7/5/1941 https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/si-toc.htm The
Ghetto Fighters' House archives contain many pictures from Lida and
area towns, generally groups. "Search by text"; also a partisan
database searches by name only. When I checked the site Feb 2019, it's
Hebrew only; the English link google returns is gone. https://www.gfh.org.il/ Woman’s
story of her father, railroad engineer and "enemy of the people" to the
Soviets, who was exiled from Siberia to Lida with his wife and
daughter. They all worked with the partisans. The article mentions
names of people who helped Jews and people who betrayed them. This link
is inactive as of 2015 and was not archived on the Wayback Machine. If
you know where equivalent information is located, please let me
know! https://pawet.narod.ru/book/memory/nakaznysh.html Mass murder of 8,000 Jews from Lida: This link last
saved in the Internet Archive in 2018. Paste this URL into their home page.
https://www.ev-en.org/history/kurenetz_destruction_1.html -
in Russian. Jews
from the Lida Ghetto sent to Sobibor.
This article is in Russian. The link is stale as of 2016, but again
active in 2020. To see the
article, paste this URL: https://www.newsru.com/background/04may2005/memoryday.html
into The Internet
Wayback Machine. You'll get a year bar at the
top with dark vertical bars for instances
when the article was saved. Choose one of the early ones. This will
yield a calendar for the year. Scroll until you find a date with a
light blue circle over it. Click there. Memoir of Polish Jew, Yu. B. Margolin who spent decades in a Gulag but in Lida in 1939. The work's in Russian, and the link's gone stale. You can retrieve it by pasting this URL: https://margolin-ze-ka.tripod.com/chapter02.html into the search box in the Internet Wayback Machine & use a translation extension. All the links work, so you can read the entire book on the Wayback Machine. (As of 2020) There was once a Kibbutz Lida,
training young people in agriculture prior to making aliyah. The only
source so far (2017) for this is a bio of one of the peope who
attended, Abraham
Kielczewski. “Antisemitism without Jews”: LidaHolocaust Memorial 2003 vandalism. The original news item was removed from the source website, https://www.charter97.org/eng/news/2003/10/15/yama. The original page can be recovered from the Wayback Machine. Choose the first snapshot from 2004 (Jan 8), which includes a photo showing that blue paint was splashed on the monument. Dedication of a Holocaust Memorial Monument in Lida, late summer 2003. https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/cerem2003.htm Phillip Alloy, who has ancestors from Lida, has produced a film based on testimonies of former partisans living in Belarus, "Interviews from the Underground" Holocaust
Memorial photo https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/yadvashe.html Edward
Victor photos https://www.edwardvictor.com/lida_belarus_main.htm
Holocaust era letters to family members https://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/special/voices_dedication.shtml ,Use the Internet Archive Wayback machine to access. The entire link chain is preserved. One in Lida https://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/special/voices_bios.shtml Scroll down to 'others' - Rivka, one of the recipient's sisters, lived in Lida. Resistance to the Nazis in Grodno mentions Lida: https://www.grodnoonline.com/lost_worlds/section_4e_test.html - link is stale. From an image captured in 2001 and found on the internet Wayback Machine, here are the relevant sections: .."
The first contact between the Grodno ghetto and Vilna was effected
through Bella Chazan (later Ya’ari), a native of Volhynia and
an
activist in Dror–He-Halutz (she was caught and sent to
Auschwitz
in April 1942, survived, and settled in Israel after the war). In
October 1941, Bella Chazan was sent to Grodno, arriving a few days
before the city’s Jews were incarcerated in the ghettos. She
found living quarters at the edge of the city, obtained work as an
interpreter for the Gestapo, and was issued authentic
“Aryan” papers under an assumed identity. Her
apartment was
a transit and meeting place for the intermediaries of the pioneer youth
movements on the Vilna–Warsaw route. She herself maintained
contact with the ghetto through her friend Itka Burakov, and the two
established a group of He-Halutz ha-Za’ir in the ghetto. Her
mission was to serve as a liaison between the center in Vilna and the
branches in Lida, Grodno, and Bialystok, to smuggle information, money,
and arms, and to prepare “safe houses” in Grodno
for other
movement intermediaries...
" and " ...
Another group that fled to the forests had greater success. In early
1943 a Jewish underground was formed in Grodno by Leib and Yisrael
Rejzer, Salomon Zhukovsky, a teacher named Shmuel, Sonia Epstein, and a
few others. They had been active in a local Communist organization, and
they were joined by members of Poalei Zion-ZS. Sixteen of them slipped
out of the ghetto and, using sleds, set off toward the town of Skidel.
Their objective was to make contact with a Byelorussian partisan
activist, Kostia Bucko, who was known for his assistance to Jews. They
met with him, returned to the ghetto, and, two weeks later, again went
into the forests. Leib Rejzer, who worked as a carpenter in a military
hospital, had pried open the window of the hospital’s
storeroom
and removed four pistols and 150 bullets. Armed with these and five
rifles, twenty-six youngsters set out for the Puszcza Nacza woods. A
few days later they were met by Bucko and two Jewish horsemen, who took
the group to the Radun Forest. post office in Lida. In 1940-41, about 18 arrested workers were sent to Siberia or Kazakhstan. EISISKES: ·
Log
of SS actions in Lithuania (Search Butrimonys
and “Eysisky”)
Butrimonys
is not the one in Lida District https://www.remember.org/docss.html · A Village Named Dogalishok: The Massacre At Radun And Eishishok (Library of Holocaust Testimonies) 2006. It can be ordered online from the large commercial online booksellers. The author is Avraham Aviel, originally Avraham Lipunsky. He wrote a second book about his aliyah, marriage, and fighting in the Hagganah. These books were combined into a movie called "... But Who Could I Pray For? - the Story of Avraham Aviel". The DVD is available from Yad Vashem. - thanks to Joe Fibel for this information. Fortunately, the DVD is unrestricted region. A trailer is on YouTube - it's subtitled in English. -Youtube also has a video of an interview with Aviel. There is a photo of Aviel during his testimony. -Another Youtube video is "Yom Kippur After the War". Subtitled in French. - A presentation made by one of his children for Aviel's 80th birthday. ·
Einsatzgruppen in Lithuania and picture of girls from Eisiskes at
topic 8, Mass Murder IVYE: ·
Testimony
of Dr. Izaak Kaplinski,
Ivye ·
Summary
of the mass murder of the Jews of Ivye
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/ivye-crimes.htm LIDA CITY:
OSTRYNA: ·
Testimony
of Wladimir Glembocki
from Ostryna https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/yv-glembocki.htm ·
Investigation
of Josef Kiefer for war crimes
committed in Ostryna
and Szczuczyn https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/kiefer.htm ·
memorial
to Wigdorowicz
family from Ostryna http://micha.reisel.net/memor/wigdorowitz.htm RADUN: ·
Reports
of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission: RadunVasilishki · Testimony in Adolf Eichmann trial of A. Aviel from near Radun. Use "find in page" browser feature for his testimony in several places https://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/e/eichmann.adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-029-04 This page went stale in 2015 & is supposed, as of 2020, to be on the Internet Archive, though I was unable to retrieve it. SCUCYN: ·
Testimony
of Liber Losh,
a man from Szczuczyn https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/yv-losh.htm ·
Testimony
of Shoshana Nachimowitz
(Medlinski)
from Szczuczyn https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/yv-nachim.htm ·
Testimony
of Golda Shwartz,
born in Ostryna,
lived in Szczuczyn https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/yv-shwarz.htm ·
Investigation
of Josef Kiefer for war crimes committed in Ostryna
and Szczuczyn https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/kiefer.htm ·
End
of the Piaski
Jewish Community https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/piaski.htm VASILISHKI: ·
Reports
of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission War crimes in Vasilishki https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/vas-crimes.htm · Report of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission. War criminals in Vasilishki https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/vas-crminals.htm - Report of the Soviet
Extraordinary Commission. List
of Victims in Vasiliski
VORONOVO ·
Testimony
of Felix Isakovich Sinalevich,
from Voronovo https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/yadv-sinal.htm ·
Summary
of testimony of Nathan Ballon
from Eisiskes
of mass murder of 300 Jews in Voronovo https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/ballon.htm ZALUDOK: ·
Summary
of mass murder of Jews of Zaludok https://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/zaludok.htm ·
Mass
murder of Jews https://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lida-district/zal-crimes.htm If
you have Lida uezd
materials to share, please considering donating it.
If you read Yiddish or Hebrew, please contact us.
Records are
held both in Grodno and Vilna archives.For Lida records translation,
your tax deductible contribution by credit card via the secure server
at either group or by mail will grow our knowledge. For a $100
donation, you receive all these records translated two years ahead of
their posting on JewishGen. Every penny collected is used for Lida uezd
projects only. Records include censuses; family lists; marriages,
births, death records; prenumeraten lists; and more. Please contact Judy Baston
with any questions.For current translations, please see the
ALD: All Lithuanian Database and Belarus SIG Database. |