spot 2
There was a Jewish young man,
called Srolis, Srolka who
found shelter against the Germans in the house of the parents of Emilija
Dudiene, ( the mother-in-law of Angele). He stayed there for four
days, but finally he decided to give himself to the Germans. He was
taken away and nobody knows what happened to him afterwards.
Emilija told
us he prayed a lot and she remembers very well his tefillins (either
of two small square leather boxes containing slips inscribed with
scriptural passages and traditionally worn on the left arm and on the
head by Jewish men during morning weekday prayers ).
He didn’t want to stay, because he
didn’t want to endanger the lives of Emilija’s parents and
her siblings and herself. Once you were caught ( hiding a Jewish
human being), you were shot by the Germans, right away.
In this house also were hidden Jewish refugees. Usually they stayed for
one or two nights and then mostly joined the partisans or the Russian
army. This house is at the boundary of Kurkliai |