Interview Testimony by Nechama Shneorson

I would say that the worst impact of life to me personally was the day that they came to take all the children away from the ghetto. That was the action that destroyed, actually, me at this point because I have seen how they did it, and what they did to these kids.

They came in with trucks and dogs-- big German shepherd dogs. And they went from house to house and screamed whoever has little kids to come outside. And they didn't take the mother and the child together. They just tore out the baby or a child of four or five or 10 and threw them into those trucks. And the screaming, and the crying, and the begging, it was-- the skies were screaming together with the kids, and the mothers, and fathers. It was a disaster.

They came to our house. My little sister, was at this point, only eight years old. We tried to hide her. So we-- she was under the bed like, hiding, was laying there under the bed and said not to say a word. We don't want to hear nothing out of you.

And a Germans came in and saw there was children. Where are the children? Do you have any children? And I said no, no, no, no. And he just turned his head down, and he said he saw my little sister there. "This is not a child? Come out here." And she came out, and she start crying and tearing his clothes off him. Please don't take me. Please don't take me. I will work. I'll do everything I can. Just don't take me away from my mother and father.

And she was tearing him, his clothes and climbing on him. And he gave her like a shove off from him. "What the hell do you think you're doing here on top of me?" The moment she fell off him, I grabbed her by hand, and we ran to the backdoor, and I didn't come back with her again. And she was saved at this moment. At this moment, she was saved.

They walked out. It was a miracle from a second. I don't know what the German felt at this moment. He got tired of her or whatever. And he walked out. We saved our little sister. But what was going on in the streets, that's the worst that anybody could bear to watch it. What they did to the kids was very well-known because, of course, they didn't bother with them.

If a mother didn't care to give the baby away freely, so they let the dogs on that woman. And the dog would tear her apart until she would leave. Of course, the baby off her hands, and then there was to take the baby and throw it in, just actually throwing it into the trucks.

Some of them took the babies by their legs and just beating them through the walls into the truck. It was just hard to describe what that was going on there. And we lost all our children.