From the Lida ghetto to the Bielski partisans

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

From the Lida ghetto to the Bielski partisans 

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Written in 1984, the text describes Liza Ettinger's life in Lida, Poland (now Belarus), before the outbreak of World War II; the Soviet occupation of Poland; the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union; the death of her husband at Paneriai (Ponary), Lithuania; her internment in the ghettos in Vilnius and Lida, Lithuania; surviving a"selektion" joining the partisans; and the end of the war.