Nesse Galperin Godin Born: 1928, Siauliai, Lithuania Describes
the formation of the Siauliai ghetto [Interview: 1989] Now to go
into the ghetto you just had to show the certificate. If you had
the certificate, they let you in through the gate. So about five
thousand people got into the ghetto. We had ten thousand Jewish
people into the two ghettos. The people that did not got the,
get this yellow certificate, I believe it's about 3,500 of them
--the orphanage, the old-age home, the elderly, the sick, the
children from many families, and many, many people that they
came to their home last and there was no more room in the
ghetto. They were put into the city synagogues, in the shulen,
as we called it, in the shul. With hunger, no water. They were
begging for food, they were begging for them to be saved. People
were trying--our Jewish community council, who were wonderful
people, they tried so hard to save. They were saying already,
"Okay, take them to this little city of Zagare." They thought at
least they will