Testimony of Chaim Levin Golani, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and Stutthof, Kivioli and Dautmergen camps and a death march

Testimony of Chaim Levin Golani, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and Stutthof, Kivioli and Dautmergen camps and a death march Attends a Jewish school; relations with the non-Jewish population. Escape of his family to Lida, 1939; return of the family to Vilna, 1940. Life under Soviet rule; German occupation, June 1941; decrees; cruel attitude of the Lithuanians; yellow badge; deportation of the Jews to the small Vilna Ghetto and the large Vilna Ghetto, 1941; ghetto life in the small ghetto; labor in metal workshops; deportation to Ponary; joins the Underground commanded by Abba Kovner; liquidation of the ghetto, autumn 1943; separation of women and men; transfer to Narva; transfer to Kivioli camp; receives striped inmate uniform; forced labor; evacuation to Tallinn and then to Danzig, 1944; transfer to Stutthof on boats; labor in the crematorium; deportation to Dautmergen, January 1945; labor on railroad tracks; typhus; physical punishments; air-raids, April 1945; death march, 18 April 1945; liberation by the French Army in the Altshausen area, 25 April 1945. Move to Konstanz; wanderings in Europe; illegal immigration attempt to Eretz Israel from Italy; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 11 November 1947.