Testimony of Lea (Shvarts) Gildin, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Oszmiana Ghetto, Miligan, Janischken, in hiding and in other places

Testimony of Lea (Shvarts) Gildin, born in Vilna, (Lithuania) Poland, 1926, regarding her experiences in Vilna, the Oszmiana Ghetto, Miligan, Janischken, in hiding and in other places Her childhood with her parents. Red Army occupation of Vilna, September 1939; arrival of refugees from Poland; German Army occupation of Vilna, 1941; deportation of her brother to forced labor; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; life under German occupation including the imposition of decrees and termination of studies; escape from the ghetto; transfer to the Oszmiana Ghetto; selection in the ghetto; concentration of Jews in the synagogue; deportation to Miligan camp; camp life including hunger and labor paving roads; transfer to Janischken camp; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks; [escape from the] camp; in hiding in villages in the vicinity; capture while returning from the village; injury; hospitalization in a hospital in the Siauliai Ghetto; transfer back to Janischken camp; transfer to Stutthof; camp life including labor; escape to a forest; in hiding in a home in a village; informed on; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Vilna; aliya to Israel, 1957.