Testimony of Tamar Sara Chonowitz Appleboim, born in Vilna, Poland, 1941, regarding her experiences as a baby in the Vilna Ghetto and in the home of a non-Jewish family

Testimony of Tamar Sara (Chonowitz) Appleboim, born in Vilna, Poland, 1941, regarding her experiences as a baby in the Vilna Ghetto and in the home of a non-Jewish family Life in Vilna during the occupation, 1941; loss of contact with her father in Leningrad; deportation with her mother and baby female cousin to the Vilna Ghetto; the witness and her cousin are entrusted to Elena Stephanova Gregorieva; information regarding the fact that her mother has found a hiding place in an attic for the duration of the war; her aunt joins the partisans in the Vilna forests; life with the non-Jewish family, 1942-1945; life using a non-Jewish false identity; receiving love from her foster mother. Return of her biological mother, 1945; death of her father from starvation during the siege of Leningrad; difficulty in being separated from her foster mother; move to Poland with her mother and relatives; her cousin remains with the foster family until 1960; her mother's remarriage and move to the Bad Reichenhall DP camp; aliya to Israel with her family, 1949; recognition of Elena Stephanova Gregorieva as a Righteous Among the Nations.