[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

Testimony of Pierazky, Binyamin-Eliyahu, a 27 year old metal-worker and factory engineer from Warsaw. He describes how he fled from Poland with his six brothers, and lost them along the way. He describes train bombardments and fires that burned through the night, and the abandonment of the wounded by Polish military in retreat, despite the attempt of a Jewish doctor to force them to take the wounded. Some of the refugees were killed along the way as the group made its way by train to Lublin. Eventually the author arrived alone to Vilnius where he was helped by kind people, and was attempting to immigrate to the United States. Protocol No. 47 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation.