Testimony of Aba Veinstein, born in Marijampole, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in hiding in Simnas and using a false identity in the Alytus area

Testimony of Aba Veinstein, born in Marijampole, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in hiding in Simnas and using a false identity in the Alytus area 

Testimony of Aba Veinstein, born in Marijampole, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in hiding in Simnas and using a false identity in the Alytus area 

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Testimony of Aba Veinstein, born in Marijampole, Lithuania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Kaunas, in hiding in Simnas and using a false identity in the Alytus area Life before the war in Simnas; attends a Jewish school; life in Kaunas including university studies. Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 22 June 1941; escape from the Red Army; transfer with Jews to a center; release from the center with help from a friend; transfer of Jews to a monastery by Lithuanians; transfer with Jews to Fort 7 by Lithuanians; German occupation, 24 June 1941; receives a travel permit to Simnas; escape to Simnas, 16 July 1941; life in Simnas; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; Lithuanian local authority; activities of Zadeika, Lithuanian Mayor; activities of Venckus, Lithuanian Police Commissioner; activities of Vaitkus, Deputy Police Commissioner; receives information about the German occupation, 22 June 1941; receives information about the arrest of non-Jewish and Jewish administrators by Lithuanians; list of names of detainees; deportation of Jews to forced labor; looting of Jewish owned property, 22 August 1941; establishment of a Judenrat; abuse and murder of Jews; selection including murder of young men, August 1941; transfer of groups of woman and elderly to Alytus prison; receives information from farmers about the murder of women and elderly, 01 September 1941; receives information from a farmer about the murder of Jews including his mother and brother in a forest; 12 September 1941; receives information about the escape of some Jews from the killing pit; receives food from a farmer; hidden by a farmer in exchange for money; in hiding in fields; in hiding in a barn of a Polish farmer; life using a Lithuanian false identity in villages in the Alytus area; liberation by the Red Army, 28 July 1944. Life in Alytus; search and murder of war criminals with Soviet security men; move to Salzburg; life in Salzburg; includes a list of names of Lithuanian collaborators.