עדותו של מאיר שלומוביץ'

Testimony of Meier Slomowits. Slomowits describes his pre-war life growing up in Kaunas in an observant family. He discusses his family in detail, what he did day-to-day, Shabbat and the holidays as well as his hobbies as a child and teenager growing up prior to the Nazi occupation. Slomowits recalls the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in September 1939 as well as the German invasion beginning June 1941 in which an uncle and three cousins were murdered by Lithuanians upon the onset of the invasion. Upon the Nazi invasion, Slomowits attempted to escape to the Soviet Union with his family, however the plan failed and soon after their return home, they were sent to the Kovno Ghetto. In the ghetto, Slomowits worked rigorously in a military airport building runways for Nazi planes to land. He also briefly mentions how the Judenrat built hideouts in order to supply for the Nazi resistance as well as organized Jewish schools both for educational and vocational purposes. Slomowits was deported to Stutthoff in July 1944.