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21. Early 1942, Warsaw, ghetto. Two accounts recorded by Rabbi Shimon
Huberband:
1. ענליוו .1941 רעמוז ,םיחטש ענעמונראַפֿ ײַנ יד ףױא תוליהק יד ןופֿ ןברוח רעד” “הבֿיבֿס ןוא [“The destruction of the Jewish communities on the territories occupied in summer 1941. Vilna and vicinity”] Account given probably by Rokhl Zylberberg, a 22-year-old HeHalutz member and a refugee from Krzeszowice near Kraków, concerning the Soviet occupation of the eastern borderlands, particularly Vilna, and the begin-ning of the German occupation (until October 1941) 248
2. עשיטעיוואָס ענעמונראַפֿ עײַנ יד ףױא תוליהק עשידיי יד ןופֿ ןברוח רעד” “הבֿיבֿס ןוא קאָטסאָלאַיב .I טפֿעה .II דנאַב .ןטיבעג [“The destruction of the Jewish communities on the newly occupied Soviet regions. Volume 2. Notebook 1. Białystok and vicinity”] Anonymous account by a refugee from Warsaw concerning relations in Western Belarus and the first months of the German occupation, particularly describing the situation of the Jewish population in Białystok, and a report on crossing into the General Government 249
22. After 2 March, 1942, Warsaw, ghetto. Testimony by Israel Kempner or Yehuda Pińczowski, delegates of the Vilna Betar organisation, concerning the situation of the Jews under the Soviet occupation and anti-Jewish persecutions in the first months after the outbreak of the German–Russian war 304
23. October 1941, Warsaw, ghetto. Testimony of Arieh ‘Jurek’ Wilner, recorded by Daniel Fligelman, concerning the Soviet occupation of Vilna and the first anti-Jewish persecutions after the outbreak of the German–Soviet war; it contains the first references to the murders in Ponary 330
24. January 1942, in Warsaw, ghetto. Anonymous testimony concerninganti-Jewish persecutions in Vilna in the first months after the out-break of the German–Soviet war 342
25. Late 1941, Warsaw, ghetto. “ענליוו ןגעוו תועידעי” [“News about Vilna”] Account by Miriam Abramowska, 20-year-old refugee from Vilna,
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