The association of jews from vilna and vicinity - a large and important collection of paper items

The association of jews from vilna and vicinity - a large and important collection of paper items

About 100 paper items from a major active estate in the Vilnius Organization to commemorate the perished, and to help survivors from Vilnius and surrounding communities.

Among other can find: A list of handwritten names of Holocaust survivors from the Jews of Vilnius who lived in Eretz Israel in the late 1940s. The list includes first names, home name, age, duration in Israel, parents' names, and residential address. Various assurances about the fate of survivors or perpetrators of Vilna Jewry signed by the first organization's chairman Dr. A. Rodnicki, and Secretary H. Kopilowitz [For example, "We hereby confirm that the girls Ilana and Julia Frozen ... were born in Vilnius on December 22, 1936, during the war, were with gentiles in the woods around Vilnius. Her Father Elijah perished in the Vilnius Ghetto and mother Miriam perished in the Grodno Ghetto. Origin of well-known Zionist families: Frozen in Vilna R. Rosenbaum in Grodno "], list of expenses of the organization, stencil printing pages dealing with the establishment of the "Vilna House" in Israel, various documents of the Vilnius from before the Holocaust, letters written by survivors to the organization detailing their condition and family who perished, summaries of meetings of the organization ["At three general meetings held at the KKL-JNF hall in Tel Aviv, attended by a large number of residents of Vilnius and the surrounding area, among them lot of partisans and new immigrants discussed the report presented by the previous committee and the future association's functions ... The committee's first action was to prepare a Passover order for new immigrants ... '], Early postcards sent from various places, documents of which preference is given to immigrants from Vilnius who were partisan during the Holocaust, documents on the search of relatives, documents on cultural events on behalf of the organization, and more.

 

Most of the documents are written in Hebrew, some in Yiddish. The collection has not been thoroughly examined.

The association of jews from vilna and vicinity, which began its operations in Europe after the war, and over the years has grown to hundreds of active members, was established to gather historical materials about the magnificent Vilnius community and to give them to future generations, to gather testimonies of survivors and lost stories that tell the community's story, help survivors and support them, and perpetuate the memory of those who perished. The organization has held dozens of cultural events over the years, He has a library, as well as legacy trips to Vilnius and the surrounding cities, and is in close contact with the community in Lithuania and the embassies in Lithuania and Israel.

The pages are arranged in a binder, very good condition.