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Testimony of Luba (Sher) Kaplansky, born in Plunge, Lithuania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Telsiai, Viesvenai, Giruliai, in hiding in villages and forests, using a false identity and in the Siauliai Ghetto

Testimony
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Testimony of Luba (Sher) Kaplansky, born in Plunge, Lithuania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Telsiai, Viesvenai, Giruliai, in hiding in villages and forests, using a false identity and in the Siauliai Ghetto Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, June 1941; her family's escape to Telsiai; murder of her injured father by Germans; deportation to Viesvenai; guarded by Lithuanians; mutual help; abuse of men; witness is hidden during an "Aktion" against elderly people and children; transfer to Giruliai; women and children remain without the men; agricultural labor in villages in the area; concentration of the Jews in the Viesvenai forest, December 1941; rescue with her mother and approximately 10 other women from the killing pits in exchange for bribery of a Lithuanian soldier; walks in snow without shoes; wanderings and life in hiding in villages in the area; wanderings in forests; hidden in the home of the priest in Telsiai; receives Lithuanian identity documents; life in the priest's home while using a false identity for approximately one year; visits in church; move to a hiding place in the home of the priest's sister in a nearby village; sneaks into the Siauliai Ghetto; labor in a sewing workshop; hides during "Aktions"; knowledge about the anticipated liquidation of the ghetto; escape from the ghetto and life in hiding in a nearby village; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Plunge; displays of antisemitism; attempt to illegally cross the border to Poland, 1946; detention by the Soviets; detention in prison as a refusenik; aliya to Israel, 1942.
item Id
6580237
First Name
Luba
Last Name
Kaplanski
Kaplansky
Maiden Name
Sher
Date of Birth
13/05/1931
Place of Birth
Plungė, Lithuania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
26/06/07
Date of Creation - latest
26/06/07
Name of Submitter
Kaplansky Sher Luba
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection