Testimony of Moshe Milner, born in Varniai, Lithuania, 1907, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and Dachau

Testimony of Moshe Milner, born in Varniai, Lithuania, 1907, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and Dachau Illegal activities as a member of the Communist party; detention; expulsion from the party. Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, summer 1941; escape in the direction of the East; return home; murder of escapees in Ukmerge and forts in the surrounding area; murder of Jews by mobs and Lithuanian policemen; German occupation; Kaunas Ghetto life; rescue of the witness' toddler daughter along with other children due to Yanas Balbeis, the Lithuanian administrator of an orphanage; help from the priest Poikstys in the supply of birth certificates to the ghetto's Jews; attempt to rescue the witness' oldest daughter; betrayal of his daughter; return of his daughter to the ghetto by the Gestapo; establishment of an underground relief organization for self-defense, September 1941; activities by the underground relief organization in the ghetto; "Aktions"; ghetto life and the condition of the Jews in the ghetto; integration of the relief organization into the general underground; "Aktion" against children; deportation to Stutthof; transfer to Dachau; camp life including mutual help; equipping themselves with knives and other objects as self-defense from murder; liberation. Return to Lithuania; return of his daughter from the orphanage; attitude towards the Communist regime; aliya to Israel.