Testimony of Chanan Reif, born in Tirksliai, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in Vieksniai, Mazeikiai, the Siauliai Ghetto, in hiding in Balenwliai and other places

Testimony of Chanan Reif, born in Tirksliai, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in Vieksniai, Mazeikiai, the Siauliai Ghetto, in hiding in Balenwliai and other places 

Testimony of Chanan Reif, born in Tirksliai, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in Vieksniai, Mazeikiai, the Siauliai Ghetto, in hiding in Balenwliai and other places 

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Testimony of Chanan Reif, born in Tirksliai, Lithuania, 1908, regarding his experiences in Vieksniai, Mazeikiai, the Siauliai Ghetto, in hiding in Balenwliai and other places Life in Vieksniai before the war. German occupation, 26 June 1941; abuse and murder of Jewish men; deportation of Jewish men to forced labor; concentration of the men in a synagogue; looting of jewelry; deportation of Jews to Mazeikiai; finds belongings of Jews in barns; deportation with a group of men to a Jewish cemetery, 05 Ausgust 1941; digging pits; return deportation to barns; receives information about the murder of Jews from Mazeikiai in a cemetery; escape to a field; murder of the Jews, 06 August 1941; escape to Siauliai; life in Siauliai including giving testimony to the Judenrat about the murder of the Jews; ghetto life including receives information from a former maid about the murder of his family; escape to Balenwliai; life in Balenwliai and hidden by a farmer's home; receives a letter from a friend in the Siauliai Ghetto; receives information about the deportation of the children from the ghetto and asks for help; pays a bribe to the farmer; move of his friend and wife by the farmer to in hiding; escape to Narazeniai due to being informed on; life in Narazeniai with a woman from the Siauliai Ghetto; murder of the woman and her son by Lithuanians; escape back to the farmer in Balenwliai; betrayal by the farmer and arrest by SS men; transfer to a synagogue in Seda; shelling of Seda by the Red Army; escape of the guards; breaks a wall with inmates; receives information about the murder of men in Tirksliai; receives information about the deportation of women and children to barns in Mazeikiai; receives information about the deportation of Jews from Klykoliai; Vergeriai, Akmene, Seda, Zidikai and barns in Mazeikiai.