Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding

Testimony of Israel Lolka Blumental born in Vilna [Wilno], Poland in 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in the Vilna Ghetto and while in hiding Life before the war; traditional, well-to-do, Revisionist family; Soviet occupation; nationalization of his father's factory; pogrom by the Lithuanian Police in summer 1940; German occupation, June 1941; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto; his parents receive work cards; Vilna Ghetto life; his father receives information from a German officer at his place of labor regarding approaching "Aktions"'; his family members escape to hiding places in the homes of Poles; his family escapes from the ghetto before its liquidation to a hiding place prepared by his father; life in hiding; approach of the war front; life during the last six days before the liberation; liberation by the Red Army, July 1944; emotional meeting with a Jewish Red Army officer; Return to their home in Vilna after Polish citizens receive permission to leave; move to Lodz; move to Germany with help from the Bericha organization; life in the Degendorf DP camp [under the auspices] of the UNRRA organization; organization of a group of children in the context of the Beitar organization; move to France; attempt to make illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the "Lanegev" ship in the context of Aliya Bet; deportation to Cyprus; smuggled from Cyprus inside a rucksack; aliya to Eretz Israel during Pesach (April) 1947.