Testimony of Rivka (Diskant) Krakinovski, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1918, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto and with the Soviet partisans in the area

Testimony of Rivka (Diskant) Krakinovski, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1918, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto and with the Soviet partisans in the area Her childhood; life until the outbreak of the war. German occupation of Kaunas; pogrom by Lithuanians; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, 1941; murder of 500 Jewish intellectuals in the Ninth Fort in Kaunas; witness joins an underground organization in the Kaunas Ghetto lead by Chaim Yellin; an organized escape to a forest; joins the "Death to the Occupiers" partisan brigade; death of her partisan brother and her father, at the age of 64, during an attempt to escape from the Ninth Fort; combat in the Rudniki forests; service as a nurse in "The Liberator" partisans brigade; liberation by the Red Army, July 1944. Return to Kaunas; aliya to Israel, 1972.