Lusia S. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lusia S., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1922, the oldest of three children. She recounts her family fleeing from the Bolsheviks to Vilnius when she was three months old; their relative affluence; attending a Yiddish gymnasium; her father's participation in the Bund; her mother transferring her to a Polish school; spending summers in Nemenčinė and Pabradė; participating in Hashomer Hatzair and Gordonyah; university studies in pharmacology; violent antisemitic harassment by Endecjas; Soviet occupation in September 1939; Akiva members living with them and becoming close friends; briefly studying in Kaunas after the pharmacology faculty moved there; German invasion in June 1941; Lithuanian attacks on Jews; hiding her father and brothers; ghettoization; moving with the Akiva members to her grandmother's house in the ghetto area; slave labor at the Porubanek airport; her mother arranging her assignment to Baltoji Vokė; slave labor digging turf; smuggling food to her parents; attending a meeting with Abba Kovner and other resistants; hiding with her family during a round-up; arranging for her family to join her in Baltoji Vokė; hospitalization in the ghetto for a tonsillectomy; learning her family had been killed while she was gone; and returning to Baltoji Vokė, then back to the ghetto in spring 1943.

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