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Sara Kaplovitz

Testimony
Testimony of Sara (Shilingovsky) Kaplovitz, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1937, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto and bring hidden by Konstanta Brazeniene, a Righteous Among the Nations Experiences of her family before the war; The Soviet occupation, 1940, the German occupation, 1941; murder of her grandparents; order to wear the Yellow Badge; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; murder of her father with other members of the intelligentsia; ghetto life, including hunger, abuse and "Aktions"; her mother's work outside the ghetto; hiding; being smuggled outside the ghetto a few days before the "Aktion" against the children, March 1944; being hidden by Righteous Among the Nations, Konstanta Brazeniene; receiving assistance from Konstanta Brazeniene's son; baptism; visits to the church; hiding of another Jewish child in the attic; betrayal; search for the witness; hiding in the attic with the child; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944; Reunion with her mother who survived; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1948; life in Israel.
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item Id
12817046
First Name
Sara
Last Name
Kaplovitz
Maiden Name
Shilingovski
Date of Birth
1937
Place of Birth
Kaunas, Lithuania
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
14165
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
09/02/2017
Date of Creation - latest
09/02/2017
Name of Submitter
קפלוביץ שרה
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
48
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video