Abram Shnaper, holocaust survivor of Vilna, Lithuania. My father died when I was a baby. I was 10 years old I joined the Zionist Youth scouts, all my life I was active in the Zionist Youth, I was in charge of summer camps. 1938 I was sent to a Kibbutz on the Polish border of Germany. The date the war broke out 1939 we were running to the Russian border, the Germans were behind us, the bombs, machines. We were in the Russian occupied part of Poland, I went back to Vilna, it was 700 kilometers. They put us in ghettos closed behind armed guards and blocked the street with a big wooden door. On Yom Kippur I came home from forced labor and I could not find my mother and aunts because they were taken away in an “Action”. Thousands were taken that morning and the ghetto became empty. You can take away all my family but you can’t take me. I went to a secret attic, there is 100 people hiding there. I went to a secret cellar, it felt like a tomb. Then I hear my cousin calling my name on the street, he knew where to find me and he risked his life because he had no papers. I call to the people, “my cousin will take 60 people out from this ghetto to the other ghetto”. We come in the second ghetto and the German, he saved our life, my cousin said, these are my workers commando, and the German let us in, my cousin arranged the place to sleep. I was working on the railroad near the hotel where all the German soldiers were coming to regroup on the way to the Russian battlefront. In the large ghetto was 25,000 people, constantly constantly they started with the different color papers. They come to take away people from one color and another color, using all tricks to eliminated the amount of people. All the underground Zionist Youth joined the partisans organization and were playing a big part in the underground. Every night we have a bulletin, you have a place to meet in a yard, you read it and get copies to hear what’s going on from the illegal radio, what’s going on on the fronts and everything going on in Germany. The ghetto was getting smaller and smaller, the resistance start going in groups of twenty to the forest in 1944. One day 400 people left in groups and travel 200 kilometers, not everyone came alive. The Russian command sent officers to make a partisan base. Abba Kovner was our group leader, sometimes whole groups were annihilated by German ambushes. The Red Army soldiers were seen from 100 yards I think I’m dreaming, they liberated Vilna. I was with others falsifying documents and forging passports for repatriation. The leadership wanted me in Warsaw and I organized the immigration of Zionists.