Testimony of Pnina Tzemarion (Kagan Pesia), born in 1927 in Niemenczyn, Poland, about life in hiding with her family in farmers' homes in 1941–1944

Testimony of Pnina Tzemarion (Kagan Pesia), born in 1927 in Niemenczyn, Poland, about life in hiding with her family in farmers' homes in 1941–1944 The family; father's death; mother and daughters adopted by father's brother; German occupation ensues in June 1941, including rumors about murders; escaping from home at night due to information from neighbors about intention to eradicate the community; eradication of communities in the Wilno area; hiding with non-Jews for brief periods of time; seeking a hiding place on the Lithuania-Belorussia border; moving to the ghetto in Kiemieliszki, Belorussia; mother is arrested and disappears; hiding with an uncle and sister on an estate; contacting Jews in a coal mining camp; entering a labor camp; mother is taken from Lukiškės Prison to the camp; Keitel visits the camp; the seventy-prisoner Aktion; liquidation of the camp; transfer to the Wilno ghetto; family escapes before the ghetto is liquidated; hiding in a bunker on a farm under the floor of the home for eleven months; another Jewish family enters the bunker; liberation; back to Niemenczyn; moving to Lodz; staying in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1946; marrying a member of the Jewish Brigade; immigration to Israel in 1951; adjustment to life in Israel.