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In '41, right before...they used to...the Jewish holidays,
they...the SS decided to make a ghetto in our town, in Vilna, and
there was a poor section where a lot of Jews used to live there.
And, uh, the Jewish home for the aged was there, and the biggest
synagogue of the city of Vilna was there. The orphanage. The Jewish
hospital was there. And a lot of poor Jews lived around this
section. And one night, the SS, with the help of the Ukrainian
police with the Lithuanians, they came in, and took out all the
Jews from there and they drove them to a place, Ponary, outskirts
of Vilna there. And they shot them all there. We heard screaming
and yelling and crying during the night, but we weren't allowed to
look out of the window, because those who looked out were shot. We
didn't know what was going on anyway until the next day our
neighbors told us what was going on. We had a lot of relatives
there. My mother's cousins lived...all of...all of my mother's
relatives lived there. And a couple of weeks later they rounded up
all the Jews from the city and the suburbs and they put us all in
this ghetto, in this...and surrounded us with walls, and with
guards, and we had to live in one...in an apartment, two to three
families in a two-room apartment.
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