Testimony of Shmuel Ben-Menachem, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, membership in the ABC organization, exit from the ghetto and partisan activities

Testimony of Shmuel Ben-Menachem, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Slobodka Ghetto, membership in the ABC organization, exit from the ghetto and partisan activities Family life; his parents' origins; education at home; learns in a yeshiva. Soviet occupation, 1939; restrictions on religious activities; vocational school and apprenticeship with a shoemaker; displays of antisemitism; German occupation, June 1941; the Slobodka Ghetto; Lithuanian pogrom against the Jews, October 1941; murder of his parents; witness' two younger brothers remain alive; ghetto life; labor digging; labor in Ordnungs-Amt as a shoemaker; joins the religious section of the ABC organization; joins the Communists and leaves the ghetto; joins the partisans; partisan activities in forests; removal of eight Jews from the ghetto; last meeting with his brother and sisters; Lithuanian ambush; all eight are killed and witness is wounded in his leg; finds a hiding place in the forest with the help of a forest guard until the arrival of the Soviets; renewal of the ABC organization; move to Romania, 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Bari; absorption in Israel; participation in Israel's War of Independence in the "Shimshon Foxes" unit.