Testimony of Ester (Klabin) Grobman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Aleksotas, Stutthof, on death marches and in other places

Testimony of Ester (Klabin) Grobman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1920, regarding her experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Aleksotas, Stutthof, on death marches and in other places Her youth in a traditional, Zionist family; participation in a youth movement of the Herzlia organization of the general Zionists; attends a high school; studies in university. Red Army occupation of Kaunas, 1940; life under Soviet occupation including the nationalization of property; German Army occupation of Kaunas, 1941; Kaunas Ghetto life, August 1941-October 1943; death of her grandfather; death of her grandmother; deportation to Aleksotas labor camp; camp life, 28 October 1943-12 July 1944; transfer to Stutthof camp; last meeting with her mother before the witness' transfer to labor camps in open fields; transfer on trains; death marches; transfer to labor camps; life in each camp for a period of two months; survival of the women inmates during the death marches; meets survivors of the ghettos in Lithuania; liberation, 10 April 1945. Move back to Kaunas; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1991.