Testimony of Shmuel Gutner, born in 1931 in Kaunas, Lithuania, about his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, Dachau, the Landsberg camp, and Auschwitz during the war

Life before the war; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; property nationalized; German occupation ensues in June 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; the yellow star edict; witness deported to the Kaunas ghetto in August 1941; life in overcrowded conditions; Aktion in October 1941; activity of the Jewish police; mother smuggles food; studies in the ghetto; hides in a loft during the children's and elders' Aktion in March 1944; ghetto liquidated in summer 1944; women and young children deported to Stutthof; children and fathers separated in the Landsberg camp; witness remains with a group of 131 children who survived the Kaunas ghetto; sent to Dachau; interned there for several days; transferred with the other children to Auschwitz; two children escape from the train; life with the group of children in the camp; brother disappears; hunger; selection; acute mortality; witness observes grim spectacles; death march to Mauthausen on January 18, 1945; hunger; cannibalism; marches as far as Gunskirchen; life in the camp; thirst; acute mortality; liberaetion by American forces in May 1945; twenty-six of the 131 children survive; witness encounters members of the Jewish Brigade; immigration to Eretz Israel in September 1945; adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.