Testimony of Izrail Veselnitzkiy (Ivan Vasilenko, during the war), born in 1906, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in POW camps, in the Sonderkommando in the Ninth Fort, in the Kaunas Ghetto and in the partisans during 1941-1945, and his participation in the mass escape from the Ninth Fort during the night of 25-26 December 1943
The audio testimony was recorded in Vilnius on 02/12/1988, in a speech directed to the participants at a gathering marking 45 years since the escape; the gathering was intended to be held in Kaunas;
Draft of the witness into the Red Army at the outbreak of the war; he...