Memoirs of Zipora Birman regarding her experiences in Vilna Occupation of Vilna by the German Army; life under the German occupation including anti-Jewish legislation; kidnapping of Jews by Lithuanians in order to transport them to forced labor; arrest of men; deportation of Jews to the ghetto; deportation of Jews to the Lukiszki prison; abuse of Jews while being deported to the ghetto; beating of Jews while being deported to the ghetto; transfer of skilled professionals from the prison to ghetto number 1; deportation of the rest of the Jews from the prison to the killing pits in Ponary; first "Aktion"; liquidation of ghetto number 2; murder of Jews; promise of rescue of those with "yellow" work certificates; temporary transfer of those with yellow certificates to ghetto number 2; deportation of Jews without yellow certificates to the killing pits in Ponary; abuse of Jews by Lithuanian collaborators; attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews; deportation of skilled professionals and their families back to ghetto number 1; ghetto life including hunger; in hiding outside the ghetto; escape to the Bialystok Ghetto.