Testimony of Golda (Rudashevsky) Messeg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Dzhizak, Vilna and Siberia

Testimony of Golda (Rudashevsky) Messeg, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1930, regarding her experiences in Dzhizak, Vilna and Siberia Childhood. Occupation of Lithuania by the Red Army, 1940, German Army air-raids; hints to her father about his expected detention; escape in a wagon in the direction of Latvia; crossing the border to the Soviet Union; travel on a freight train via Samarkand and Tashkent; arrival at Dzhizak, Uzbekistan; hunger; her mother's labor in a kolkhoz; demand from the authorities for the return of her father for work, January 1945. Return to Vilna; activities of her father in smuggling Jews to Eretz Israel; being informed on; detainment of her father in the basement of the KGB; deportation of the family to Siberia, July 1948; labor in builder's brigade; her father joining the family, 1955; being rehabilitated; return to Vilna, 1957; marriage, 1959; Zionist activities; public petition to the Lithuanian government requesting permission to make aliya to Israel, 1967; travels to Riga and Moscow to recruit immigrants; aliyah to Israel, March 1971; work in the Jewish Agency as an aliya emmisary; establishing an information center for new immigrants.