Testimony of Eliahu Shachnovitz, born in Volkovyshki, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kowno Ghetto, Stutthof, Landsberg, Dachau, in a forest and other places

Testimony of Eliahu Shachnovitz, born in Volkovyshki, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kowno Ghetto, Stutthof, Landsberg, Dachau, in a forest and other places Life before the war; attends school within the framework of ORT in Kowno; drafted into the Lithuanian Army, 1935; released from the army; work in a factory. Outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, 22 June 1941; German occupation, 25 June 1941; murder of approximately 800 Jews in a suburb of Slobodka; escape of Jews to the Soviet border; Kramer, the German commander; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Kowno Ghetto, 15 August 1941; ghetto life including selection, 28 October 1941; transfer of approximately 10,000 Jews to the small ghetto; deportation of Jews for annihilation in the Ninth Fort; work at the air field outside the ghetto; work at HKP, the camp in Vilna; "Aktion" directed at children and the sick elderly commanded by Gecke, the director of the ghetto, 27-28 March 1944; deportation of the children and the elderly to the Ninth Fort and their murder; liquidation of the ghetto, 26 July 1944; transfer by tug boat to Stutthof; transfer to Kaufering; transfer to Landsberg; camp life including labor as a welder; transfer to Telz; camp life including labor for the Holtzman company; transfer to Landsberg I; liquidation of the camp, 24 April 1945; death march to Dachau; transfer in the direction of Tyrol; escape to a forest; forest life including meeting two Jews and two Germans; liberation by the US Army, 02 May 1945. Life in an American camp in Munich; return to Lithuania; reunion with his sister and sister-in-law in Kowno; work in a cigarette factory in Vilna; marriage; aliya to Israel.