Soli G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Soli G., who was born in Šilutė, Lithuania in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts moving to Kaunas in 1933; enjoying his large extended family; attending a local school; antisemitic harrassment; transfer to a Jewish school; Warsaw refugees living with them after outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation in June 1940; a social relationship with the Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara and his wife; his family obtaining documents from him to emigrate; German invasion in June 1941 preventing their departure; briefly fleeing to Jonava; hiding with a farmer; witnessing Lithuanian mass shootings of Jews; the farmer helping them return to Kaunas; his brother's round-up to the Seventh Fort and murder; ghettoization in August; assistance from a Lithuanian family; an uncle, aunt, and cousins living with them; his father's job in the ghetto administration; a Lithuanian friend providing food for them; Germans burning a hospital with everyone inside; round-ups and mass killings in the Ninth Fort; a friend escaping from a mass grave in October 1941; reading a great deal; studying with a teacher who died of starvation; occasionally substituting for his uncle for slave labor at the airport; acting as a courier for the underground; and hiding with his family during the round-up of children in March 1944.

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