Tzipora Feiga Blekher

Testimony of Cipora Feiga Shklarsky Blecher, born in Daugai, 1921, regarding her experiences in the Lithuanian Army The family; life in Daugai before the war; good relations with the local Lithuanian population; Jewish cultural activities; youth movements; studying at Vilna University and enlisting with friends at the outbreak of war; working in an optics factory for the Army in Kolopiestrowka; drafted to the Lithuanian division, March 1942; position in a medical unit; reference to a number of famous battles, among them Alexandrovka were many Jews fell; fair attitude towards the Jews by the Russian and Lithuanian officers and soldiers; way of life in the Jewish battalion; attack on the Germans, 5 July 1943; liberaton of the port town of Klaipeda. Fighting in Korlandia; role as an translator for the Russians in the surrender of the Germans in Berlin; aliya to Israel, 1973.