Testimony of Lea (Zarembok) Aharoni, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Trunz and Lubicz

Testimony of Lea (Zarembok) Aharoni, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Stutthof, Trunz and Lubicz Life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; refugees from Poland stay in her house; German occupation, June 1941; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the Soviet Union; sealing of the Kaunas Ghetto; murder of Jews in the streets; the Jewish police; fear of Ukrainians and Lithuanians; work permits are obtained for the whole family from a friend with Judenrat connections; burning of the hospital on Yom Kippur (01 October) 1941; "Large Aktion", 28 October 1941; mass murder in the Ninth Fort; confiscation of property; smuggling of food; labor at an air field and in a sewing workshop; smuggling cigarettes and selling them in the ghetto; class status in the ghetto; cultural life; the underground; Children's "Aktion", March 1944; hiding in a cellar with a group of children; life in hiding without food for three days; liquidation of the ghetto, July 1944; deportation to Stutthof; hunger; beatings; transfer to digging trenches in Trunz and Lubicz after approximately three weeks; physical and emotional abuse; high mortality; disappearance of the Germans; liberation by the Red Army between Bydgoszcz and Torun. Reunion with her father in Lodz; life in the Feldafing DP camp; aliya to Israel, 1949.