A “Black Book” describing Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied Lithuania was published here today. The facts, compiled by A. Sorin, contain horrible details of the Nazi mass-extermination of Jews in Kaunas, Vilkomir and other Lithuanian cities. The book also has a section describing the activities of Jewish guerilla fighters in occupied Lithuania.
The correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today visited a hospital in which were a number of Lithuanian Jews wounded at the front while fighting with the Russian Army. Itzik Shafirus, one of the wounded, pointed out that all six members of his family, former residents of Kaunas, are now fighting in the Russian ranks and that one of his brothers had killed 103 Germans in a machinegun fight. “You will find many Jewish families from Lithuania all fighting together against the Germans,” he said.
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