Testimony of Haim Rintovich, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Kaufering, Lansberg and Dachau

Testimony of Haim Rintovich, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, the Kaunas Ghetto, Kaufering, Landsberg and Dachau Childhood in a traditional family; attends Tarbut school for six years; assists his mother in her job in a candy factory. Outbreak of war; 1939; occupation [of Kaunas] by the Red Army, 1940; life [in Kaunas] until summer, 1941; outbreak of war between Germany and the Soviet Union, June 1941; occupation [of Kaunas] by the German Army; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; receiving gold and silver from a policeman acquaintance; obtaining a large amount of sugar by bribing two Lithuanian policemen; preparation of candy and sweets in the evenings; selling the sweets in the ghetto by his mother; life in the ghetto without hunger; liquidation of the ghetto, July 1944; transfer to Kaufering by train; life with his father and his uncle in the camp including work in the kitchen; receiving additional food for a long period of time; labor in establishing a subterranean factory; labor in Landsberg in operating an oven; transfer to Dachau, 24 April 1945; a week-long death march without receiving food; liberation by the US Army. Return to Kaunas together with his father; life in Kaunas under Soviet rule; transfer to labor camps after being informed on; aliya to Israel, 1972.