Testimony of Cilli (Bonk) Zaks, born in Vilna, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof, Dachau, Kaufering and a death march

Testimony of Cilli (Bonk) Zaks, born in Vilna, Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, Kaiserwald, Stutthof, Dachau, Kaufering and a death march Her childhood in Vilna before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, summer 1941; detention; deportation and payment for the move to the Vilna Ghetto; Vilna Ghetto life; labor mending German uniforms; "Aktions"; deportation of her father and two sisters to Estonia; 1943; Vilna Ghetto life until its liquidation, summer 1943; deportation to the airfield in Kaiserwald; camp life; labor loading railroad carts; transfer to Stutthof, late spring 1944; volunteers to go out to labor; transfer to Dachau; labor in the kitchen of the SS in Kaufering; death march, April 1945; liberation en route, 01 May 1945. DP camp life in Germany after the liberation; aliya to Israel, 1949.