Testimony of Golda Ilionski, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and Stutthof, Trunz and Leibitz camps

Testimony of Golda Ilionski, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto and Stutthof, Trunz and Leibitz camps Massacre of Kaunas Jews by Lithuanians, late June 1941; copes with humiliation and hunger during forced labor at an airfield near Kaunas; "Aktions" in the Slobodka Ghetto by the Germans and Lithuanians; "Aktion" against the intellectuals and the murder of approximately 500 intellectuals from Kaunas in the Ninth Fort, mid-August 1941; forced labor of Jewish skilled professionals in the ghetto workshops; day and scene of horror, 28 October 1941; rescue together with her family members due to her father who was registered as a crucial skilled professional; her father and brother's contacts with the Kaunas Ghetto underground lead by Chaim Yellin; Slobodka Ghetto life; stay in hiding during the kidnapping of Jews in the Ninth Fort and their deportation to extermination; public hanging of a goldsmith from the ghetto opposite the Judenrat building; "Aktion" against children including her brother, late March 1944; tension in the ghetto following the approach of the Red Army to Kaunas; deportation to Stutthof, July 1944; separation from her mother and sister; deportation of her mother to extermination; cruelty by the camp commander; labor digging anti-tank trenches; disease; transfer to Trunz camp; exhausting labor and death of the female inmates; transfer to Leibitz camp; transfer of female inmates to a forest in order to murder them during the approach of the Red Army; liberation by the Red Army, 23 January 1945; exploitation by the Red Army of the liberated female inmates as a labor force; labor in a military hospital in Landsberg. Return to Kaunas after the war; reunion with her father after his return from concentration camps; aliya to Israel, 1972.