Testimony of Avrom Taytz, born 1908, regarding his experiences in Swieciany and in hiding Life in Swieciany before the war. Establishment of a local Lithuanian government, 1940; German occupation, 01 July 1941; arrest and murder of Jews; deportation to forced labor; looting of property; deportation of the Jews to Nowe Swieciany; murder of Jews from Twerecz, Podbrodzie, Kaltinenai, and Adutiskis in a poligon, October 1941; deportation of Jews to Kaunas, April 1943; murder of deportees en route; deportation of Jews to Vilna, April 1943; escape and hidden by the farmers Zlotnikow and Romaslovski; liberation by the Red Army, 07 July 1944.