Testimony of Ida Gelinski, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Dziewieniszki, Woronowo, Strassenhof and other places

Testimony of Ida Gelinski, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Dziewieniszki, Woronowo, Strassenhof and other places Life before the war; membership in Hanoar Hatzioni; pogroms by Lithuanians, 1939. Life during Soviet rule, 1940; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, September 1941; ghetto life; murder of her mother in Ponary; agricultural labor in Vilki; escape via the fields to a relative who uses a false identity in Dziewieniszki; deportation to Woronowo, April 1942; return to the Vilna Ghetto by a messenger from her father; labor in a ghetto coffee shop, April 1942 to September 1943; youth movement cultural and underground activities in the ghetto; deportation to Riga, September 1943; forced labor in Kaiserwald; transfer to Strassenhof; transfer to Stutthof, September 1943; camp life until September 1944; forced labor in a weapons factory in Magdeburg, November 1944; escape from a death march; liberation. Aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Mataroa", September 1945.