Testimony of Frida (Rubinchik) Erez, born in Minsk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and a death march

Testimony of Frida (Rubinchik) Erez, born in Minsk, Soviet Union, 1919, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof and a death march Her childhood and youth in Klaipeda; family background; community life; move to Kaunas after the annexation to Germany, 1939; studies nursing course in "Bikur Holim". German occupation, June 1941; pogrom by Lithuanians; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; labor in a hospital for infectious diseases that was established inside the ghetto; ghetto's hospital, patients and staff are set on fire during the liquidation of the small Kaunas Ghetto, October 1941; witness is the only person from the hospital that was rescued; transfer to the large Kaunas Ghetto with her family; deportation of her family to a POW camp; labor in agriculture and in hospitals; children's and elderly persons' "Aktion"; deportation of her mother to Auschwitz; liquidation of the Kaunas Ghetto, July 1944; deportation to labor in Germany; stay in Stutthof; death march, January-March 1945; liberation by the Red Army. Travel on foot from Lodz to Munich; reunion with her husband; help from the JDC and UNRRA; aliya to Israel, 1949.