Testimony of Sheina Arkin, born in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilkaviskis and in hiding in a village

Testimony of Sheina Arkin, born in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, 1923, regarding her experiences in Vilkaviskis and in hiding in a village Life before the war; from a religious family; attends a Jewish school where the language of instruction is Hebrew; her father is a merchant. Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of Jewish factories; deportation of Jews to Siberia; German occupation, June 1941; air-raids on Vilkaviskis; burning of houses and the ancient synagogue; deportation in the direction of Kaunas on foot; deportation of Jews, including her parents, to a military camp and murder of the Jews; participation of Lithuanians in the murder of Jews; mass burial of the Jews; murder of family members from Vilna in Ponary; escape to villages with her sisters; agricultural labor; hidden by a Lithuanian family; life in hiding; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Move to Kaunas; move to Vilna; life in Vilna including typhus; hospitalization; marriage, 1944; move to Poland; life in Poland; aliya to Israel, 1968.