Testimony of Moshe Polansky, born in Marijampole, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto and Kaufering camp

Testimony of Moshe Polansky, born in Marijampole, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto and Kaufering camp Life in Kaunas. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1940; nationalization of his father's factory; his father's detention by the NKVD; German occupation; release of his father from prison; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; riots by Lithuanians; "Aktions"; deportation to the Seventh Fort; escape; large "Aktion", 28 October 1941; learns carpentry in a vocational school in the ghetto; labor making wooden shoes; ghetto is turned into a camp, March-April 1944; deportation to Kaufering camp; labor constructing a subterranean aircraft factory; death of his father; evacuation of the camp, April 1945; liberation by the US Army, 30 April 1945. Hospitalization; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; move to Italy with the Jewish Brigade; aliya to Eretz Israel, July 1946.