Testimony of Malka Pugacki, born in Merkine, Lithuania, 1919, regarding her experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, with the partisans in forests in the Vilna district and hearsay testimony regarding the experiences of the Jews in the Markine Ghetto Life before the war; life in Kaunas. Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; ghetto life; murder of Jews; escape to forests in the Vilna district; life in forests including joining the Soviet partisans; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Merkine; receives information about the experiences of the Jews during the war; Germany occupation, 23 June 1941; capture of youths by Lithuanians; murder of the men in a cemetery; includes a list of names of Lithuanian perpetrators; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; ban on Jews to use sidewalks; deportation of the Jews to a ghetto; Jewish life in the ghetto including establishment of a Judenrat; deportation of Jews to forced labor; rape and murder of Jewish women by Lithuanians; liquidation of the ghetto; murder of the Jews, 09 September 1941.