Testimony of Chaia (Mazja) Levin, born in Vilna, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans in the forests in the area

Testimony of Chaia (Mazja) Levin, born in Vilna, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans in the forests in the area Family background; education; community life. Annexation to the Soviet Union; German occupation, June 1941; decrees; confiscation of property; yellow badge; Lithuanian collaborators; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, September 1941; workshops in the ghetto; establishment of the FPO, the United Partisan Organization; activities within the underground framework; gun battle in the ghetto; cultural activities in the ghetto; marriage in the ghetto, 1943; liquidation of the ghetto, September 1943; move of the underground fighters via sewers to combat in the forest; murder of relatives at Ponary; life in the forest; obtains food from the villagers; operations against the Germans; liberation of Vilna, July 1944. Return home; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945; absorption.