il-002820-9932929395104146-990004823960304146
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title: [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]
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scope and content: Testimony of Pessie R, from Suwałki. She describes that when the Russians left Suwalki, and the Germans entered it, they looted all merchandise fgrom Jewish stores, and fined the proprietors and the rich large fines. They issued an order that Jews must gather three days' worth of food, and were arresting people and holding them in the synagogue. The author was warned by a Polish neighbors, and hid in the cellar while her three children fled. She was let out by a neighbor, and left town for the Lithuanian border with other refugees. They remained in the no-man's-land on the border, and several of the refugees were sick or mad, and suffering from hunger. They were given food by Lithuanian Jews from Kalvarija who cared for the refugees. Protocol No. 171 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.
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date: 1940/
note: Electronic text and image data. Jerusalem : Yad Vashem 2015