Ya'akov L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ya'akov L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929. He recounts his sister's birth in 1936; his parents' and uncle's fabric businesses; their leftist views; visiting relatives in Šakiai; attending a Yiddish school and a yeshiva; his father's 1936 visit to Palestine, where he purchased land, and his mother's visit to her brother in the United States; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying in Germany; expropriation of his family's factory; German invasion in summer 1941; a Lithuanian protecting his family during Lithuanian killings immediately prior to German troops entering Kaunas; his father entrusting possessions to non-Jews, only one of which returned them; ghettoization; living with his uncle's family; his uncle, a physician, providing medical services to Germans, resulting in their protected status; a cousin in the Judenrat providing protected jobs for his parents; his father smuggling food; briefly attending an ORT school; assignment to a toy workshop; hiding during round-ups for mass killings; another uncle and his family being taken; hiding in an outdoor toilet during a children's round-up that included his sister and cousin; hiding with his family in a bunker during the ghetto's liquidation; deportation to Stutthof; separation from his mother and aunts; and continuing to Dachau.

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