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Testimony of Chana (maiden name: Zimon) Rokhman, born in 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas and in the Slobodka Ghetto.

Testimony

Testimony of Chana (maiden name: Zimon) Rokhman, born in 1924 in Kovno, Lithuania, regarding her experiences in Klaipeda, Kaunas and in the Slobodka Ghetto. Childhood in Klaipeda in a traditional home; manifestations of antisemitism before the war; attending a German school; the German occupation in 1939; escape to Kovno; attending a Jewish school; participation in the "Hashomer Hatzair" movement; Soviet regime from 1940; German occupation in 1941; her family’s arrest by Lithuanians; released with her mother, brother and sister three weeks later; the deportation of her father and her nine-year-old younger...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew