Testimony of Chawa Borenstein Trakinski, born in Podbrodzie, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, hiding in villages and in the Stutthof and Kaiserwald camps

Testimony of Chawa Borenstein Trakinski, born in Podbrodzie, 1923, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, hiding in villages and in the Stutthof and Kaiserwald camps Traditional family, the father is a bookkeeper for the community affairs; antisemitism before the war. Move to Vilna with the outbreak of the war, 1939; after the German occupation detention in prison together with thousands of Jews; release with the help of non-Jewish acquaintance; murder of Jews in Ponary; help in getting out of the ghetto, September 1941; wanderings after losing the family; farm work and hiding with non-Jews; return to the Vilna Ghetto, 1942; deportation to Kaiswerwald camp for a year after the liquidation of the ghetto; labor sewing parachutes until the evacuation; deportation to Stutthoff; farm labor and labor digging fortifications; death march; acute case of typhoid and liberation by the Red Army, March 1945.