Holocaust world war 2 SS Viktoras Ašmenskas testimony coupled with real time historical testimony from Gaza holocaust world war 3

 

 

Viktoras Asmenskas, holocaust survivor of Lithuania. My family lived generation upon generation in the area of the village Viliusiai. My father was a farmer. The day before the war I was sent to Eisiskis where the first collective farms were being prepared for the former Polish presidents estate. Timber was transported there to supply constructions for those settlers. I was on a secondment to that manor to see how the forest material was being transported. The chairman of the parish asked me if everything is in order, if there is anything new I went to the district agronomist who later became the county agronomist. I heard Molotov’s words on the radio “war has begun” I went to the bus station, I had nothing with me, within a few minutes the bus station was full and there were no more tickets. I left on the road. I heard the roar of many planes flying, I see German bombers accompanied by fighter jets no higher than 500 meters. I understood they were preparing to bomb. I saw black smoke balls, they hit the oil deports at the airfield. I see a military truck going to base and I stopped them, I say men, do you know the war started, do not go to the training ground. A military headquarters was formed in Vilnius. I had friends from the Lithuanian police, we went to look for weapons from the police station. We looked for ways to further acquire weapons. We contacted officers from the army Corps, they were guarding weapons storages that could arm an entire division. They created conditions for us to enter the warehouse and arm ourselves. As soon as we left those warehouses I see near the hospital is parked Russian soldiers, I say, men, we need to disarm them. There are five of us, there are 20 of them. They saw we surrounded them and everyone gets out of the truck normally and hands over their weapons. The last one who got out lowered his rifle down falling into the cartridge chamber and then shots poured in, he collapsed and the others who had gotten out started running down the street and hiding. Our headquarters, part of the army, was in the Trakai manor. Our patrol was stationed there. After Trakai was occupied these groups disarmed, our government left and the new government was established. A commandant was appointed for a rifle company and I was tasked with forming and organizing it. The Lithuanian police were put in charge over the ghettos. One day the Polish partisans came, they knew exactly which house the police officers lived. They entered the police chiefs apartment very fast, we did not have time to leave the house without being seen. They threw in a grenade and yelled “surrender”. He surrendered and his family meanwhile broke the window open and climbed out the window. The friction with the Germans became acute, my father used to say you should trust the Jews, many families tried to save them in various ways.

https://theadornmentoflight.blogspot.com/2025/09/holocaust-world-war-2-ss-viktoras.html Viktoras testimony coupled with the words from Gaza holocaust.

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45268 See Viktoras tell his history in the holocaust in his own voice.