Murder Story of Vidukle Jews at the Viduklė Railway Station

All the [Jewish] men were forced into a Jewish house next to the train station. On the same day all the [Jewish] men were also brought from the town of Nemakščiai, 7 kilometers from Viduklė and 14 kilometers from the station. They imprisoned a total of 300 men in the house. The men who had good clothes had them confiscated. The next day one could see Lithuanians wearing shirts, boots, and shoes that had been taken from the Jews. The Jews were held in the house for a period of 3 days and nights. During the day they were taken to work at the train station. They were tortured in various ways. For example, they were forced to run and to do various kinds of physical exercises. At night, they were taken back to the house. It was so crowded that they were no room to lie down, and they had to spend the whole night standing, before being taken out to work in the morning. They were not given any food, nor were their families allowed to bring them any. Some of them wanted to die. One of those men was my father; he succeeded in smuggling out a note that described the hell in that house. This suffering lasted from Monday to Thursday. On the 29th of the month of Tammuz they brought to the station older men who had been released three days earlier. All the men were then shot next to the station. Shortly before that the scoundrels told the women that they could bring food to the men in the house. The women came with food. Just before they arrived at the station, they heard shooting and understood that all [of the men] had been shot.