[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland] 

[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland] 

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Protocol No 118 is a testimony by Israel A., a jeshiva student from Lyda, a city near Minsk. He states that on the 1st of September 1939 he saw the first german airplanes above Lyda and one week later the city was bombed. After the polish military had left the city on the 17th of September, the inhabitants formed a people's militia, Jews and Polish people together. The head of the militia was the mayor of the city who also prevented anti-jewish riots. He further states that the Bolshevik which entered the town on the 19th of September were warmly welcomed by the Jews. On the 22nd of September his jeschiva joint with a jeshiva from Kletsk and left towards Vilnius. Protocol No. 118 is an extract from a volume of protocols provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugees. In 1939 they formed a comittee to collect evidence about the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi Germany occupation.