Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Fruma (Godfried) Kaplan, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Vilna and her aliya to Eretz Israel Childhood and youth in Vilna. Outbreak of the war, 1939; air-raids; occupation of Vilna by the Soviet Army, 1939; life under the Lithuanian regime, 1939; pogrom by Lithuanians against the Jews, 1940; receiving a legal aliya certificate to Eretz Israel from her fiance in Eretz Israel, 1940; attempts to obtain a visa; aliya to Eretz Israel through Haleb, Istanbul, Odessa, Minsk, Moskow and Beirut, 1942. Receiving information regarding the death of her father in Stutthof; receiving information regarding the death of her sister in Kluga; murder of her mother and her brother apparently in Ponary .