Testimony of Berel Pikovsky, born in Druskieniki, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Druskieniki Ghetto, Kielbasin, in hiding in a bunker in a forest and with the partisans

Testimony of Berel Pikovsky, born in Druskieniki, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Druskieniki Ghetto, Kielbasin, in hiding in a bunker in a forest and with the partisans 

Testimony of Berel Pikovsky, born in Druskieniki, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Druskieniki Ghetto, Kielbasin, in hiding in a bunker in a forest and with the partisans 

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Testimony of Berel Pikovsky, born in Druskieniki, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Druskieniki Ghetto, Kielbasin, in hiding in a bunker in a forest and with the partisans Life before the war in Druskieniki. German occupation, 24 June 1941; Lithuanian riots against the Jews led by Police Commissioner Ivanauskas and his assistant Veiksneris; restrictions on the Jews by Germans and the Polish Mayor Bereze; abuse of Jews by Lithuanians; establishment of a Judenrat, July 1941; Judenrat Chairman Frenkel; establishment of a ghetto, July 1941; ghetto life including deportation to forced labor; forced contributions; arrest and murder of Jews; receives information about the deportation of Jews from Grodno to Kielbasin camp, 25 October 1942; looting of property; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation of Jews to Kielbasin camp, 02 November 1941; transfer of Jews from Rotnica to Kielbasin camp, 02 November 1942; murder of Jews; murder of the sick and elderly Jews; escape to forests; life in forests and in hiding in a bunker; life with the partisans including combat; liberation by the Red Army, 12 July 1944; includes a list of Polish and Lithuanian perpetrators.