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(There is) a courtyard, it's a little further on, we won't go in
14 Jews were hidden there.
If you've heard of the artist Bak (Shmuel/Sam Bak)
who was a little boy, only 9 years old, when he drew
in the ghetto. He hid here. He hid in a few places
but the last place he hid was here.
You've heard of the diary of Masha Rolnik?
Her sister hid here.
Grisha Yashunski and his wife Leyke Glezer Yashunski
This was a section of the archive and they were holed up
behind a wall that was covered with documents.
A Polish nun named (Maria Mikulska) would come and remove the barrel with waste
and after people washed. She'd also bring food.
Stakauskas was a priest who worked in the archive during the war.
Žemaitis was a teacher. They hid 14 people here.
There was a woman named Yofe too, they were all saved.
And when one of them died they were buried here.
And after the war she was (re?)buried.
The first to receive the honor was Maria Mikulska
(Yad Vashem's Righetous among the Nation's award )
she left for Poland in 1945. They were all honored.
He died, Statauskas died. I think about ten years ago.
He became a priest again. So we always honor these people.
Now that we're going out through the gate
I'll show you where the people who escaped through the sewers
came out. Because you've seen where they went in.
Eliot Palevski: The Hebrew here reads: