Testimony of Paulina Keynan, nee Godin in Wilno, Poland in 1925, regarding her deportation to the Wilno ghetto and the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps and the death march

Testimony of Paulina Keynan ,nee Godin, born in Wilno,Poland,in 1925 Childhood within a well-to-do traditional family, good neighbourly relations with the Polish population, increasing displays of anti-Semitism, boycotting Jewish businesses; outbreak of the war; Russian occupation; exile of wealthy people to siberia; confiscation of part of the family house for the purpose of housing Soviets; father's imprisonment for half a year; life in hiding for about two weeks in fear of exile to Siberia; German occupation in 1941; expulsion from the family house; father's arrest and disappearance; restrictions and prohibitions; deportation to the Wilno ghetto; forced labour; getting food supplies from the Wehrmacht soldiers; adoption attempt by a couple of Germans; theatre performances in the ghetto; her mother's murder in Ponary; concentration of the men, among them her youngest brother Alec and their deportation to the camp Klooga; deportation of the women by cargo train to Riga and their transfer to the Kaiserwald camp; selection; working in the forest; working in the laundry; sorting and folding laundry; transfer to the Stutthof camp; typhus; transfer on the death march; liberation by the red army; her marrying a soldier from the Jewish brigade; aliya to Israel in 1957;