Testimony of Josef Gerther, born in Kriukai, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Kedainiai, with the partisans in a forest and hearsay testimony of the Kriukai and Seredzius Jews

Testimony of Josef Gerther, born in Kriukai, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Kedainiai, with the partisans in a forest and hearsay testimony of the Kriukai and Seredzius Jews 

Testimony of Josef Gerther, born in Kriukai, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Kedainiai, with the partisans in a forest and hearsay testimony of the Kriukai and Seredzius Jews 

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Testimony of Josef Gerther, born in Kriukai, Lithuania, 1914, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Kedainiai, with the partisans in a forest and hearsay testimony of the Kriukai and Seredzius Jews Life before the war; life in Raseimiai including learns in an elementary school; learns in a Hebrew high school; life in Seredzius including learns in a yeshiva; life in Kaunas. Outbreak of the war; German occupation, 22 June 1941; restrictions on the Jews; arrest of Jews; looting of Jewish owned property; murder of Jewish men and Lithuanian communists in Sakiai, 09 July 1941; murder of the women and children in Zapyskis; ghetto life; deportation to Kedainiai, autumn 1942; camp life; escape with other Jews to forests; life in forests with partisans; end of the war. Receives information from farmers about the local Jews; receives information about the deportation of Jews from Seredzius and Jurbarkas; receives information about Jews in hiding in farmers homes until the liberation; includes a list of names of Lithuanian perpetrators of murder; receives information about the murder of Jews from Seredzius in Cekiske; includes a list of names of Lithuanian collaborators.