If I Forget Thee...

The book you hold in your hands - not a fiction book. This is the story of those Jews from the small Lithuanian town, who survived miraculously, those who wonder spared, about the terrible plight of vulnerable people, cut off from his people from their homeland.

How to tell about the horrors? Is everything you tell? .. Characteristic associated with the excitement of the storytellers, the difficulties were manifested in the lack of the right words in the race from language to language: from Yiddish into Russian, from Russian to Polish, again in Yiddish - the language of the Holocaust.

Apparently, some of those whose stories you just read, have remained in the memory of places where we do not have access. So do not look for absolute identity of the facts in the various narratives.

Given at the end of the book pictures - mostly amateur made nearly half a century ago. Each has its own history. Some gathering dust in attics, others were pasted on the walls instead of wallpaper in houses formerly belonging to the victims. Each of these Riva Lausanne, one of the authors of this book, found, bought or bartered, spending considerable time and energy.

So, before you documentary story about the death of a Jewish-Butrymantsa Butrimonisa - a typical loss of a typical town.

B. Rice, J. Schachter. Vilnius, 1983.