Tag #116061 - Interview #91352 (Chasia Spanerflig)

There were policemen [19] in the street, they were grabbing people, mostly men, and taking them to prison. Then they sent them to Paneriai [Ponary] [20], a suburb of Vilnius at that time. First, the inhabitants of Vilnius thought that there was a kind of camp. Then it became known that some unwanted people were shot there such as Communists, Komsomol members, and Jews in the first place. I was really worried when Boris went to the city to see his parents and exchange things for products on the market. It was calmer in our settlement. I can say that until mid-September I didn’t truly feel the horror of Fascism.