Testimony of Mosze Gilinski, born in Lyntupy, Lithuania, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Lyntupy Ghetto, the Swieciany Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest

Testimony of Mosze Gilinski, born in Lyntupy, Lithuania, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Lyntupy Ghetto, the Swieciany Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest 

Testimony of Mosze Gilinski, born in Lyntupy, Lithuania, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Lyntupy Ghetto, the Swieciany Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest 

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Testimony of Mosze Gilinski, born in Lyntupy, Lithuania, 1912, regarding his experiences in the Lyntupy Ghetto, the Swieciany Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest Life before the war in Lyntupy. German occupation; transfer of the local administration by the Poles; looting of Jewish owned property; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; deportation to forced labor; escape of refugees from Swieciany and the surrounding area; knowledge of the murder of Jews in a poligon, 08-09 October 1941; establishment of a ghetto; ghetto life including Judenrat activities; annexation of the ghetto to the Lithuanian occupied area, spring 1942; killing of Germans by parisans led by Markov, 19 May 1942; acts of retaliation by Germans including the murder of non-Jewish and Jewish farmers; liquidation of the ghetto and deportation of the Jews to a Christian cemetery, 20 December 1942; in hiding in an attic; receives information about the murder of Jews in a cemetery by German and Lithuanian policeman; escape to the Swieciany Ghetto; ghetto life; liquidation of the ghetto and escape to a forest; forest life including joining the partisans.