Miriam Kagan

Testimony of Miriam (Sher) Kagan, born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 1920, regarding her experiences in the Panevezys Ghetto and in hiding in a village Move to Panevezys; her family owns a wholesale business for flour and food products; witness attends a Hebrew school and Yavneh high school; death of her father. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; nationalization of the family's property; exile of her mother to Siberia; her older brothers work as salaried employees in the family business; German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Panevezys Ghetto; ghetto life including labor peeling potatoes and service jobs in a weapons factory; large "Aktion"; "Aktion" against children, 1941; escape to hiding in a village with her sister's son; life in hiding; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Her mother's return, 1945; vocational studies; marriage; starts a family; aliya to Israel, April 1969.