Testimony of Ester (Levin) Sandler, born in Joniskelis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Schans, the Slobodka Ghetto, the Kaunas Ghetto, labor camps, forests and other places

Testimony of Ester (Levin) Sandler, born in Joniskelis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Schans, the Slobodka Ghetto, the Kaunas Ghetto, labor camps, forests and other places From a religious family; move at the age of ten to her sister in Schans; work in a textile factory; relations with the Lithuanian neighbors; rescue from Lithuanian gendarmes by the neighbors. German occupation, June 1941; riots by Lithuanians; deportation to the Slobodka Ghetto; ghetto life with her family; transfer with her family to the Kaunas Ghetto; ghetto life including marriage, 1942; transfer with her husband to a labor camp; camp life including labor in the kitchen; attitude of the Germans; escape to forests with the liquidation of the ghetto, 1944; wanderings from place to place with a few escapees and joining a group; meets partisans in the forest; hidden by non-Jews; liberation. Return to Kaunas; births of two children; aliya to Israel, 1972.