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When we toured the Ghetto I showed you the hospital.
The hospital entrance was actually on this side.
This was the Jewish hospital. Here's where the entrance was.
Famous doctors worked here, there was a surgeon "Zatsin" (sp?)
He used to be called "the butcher". You laugh? It's because he was a surgeon.
Woman's voice: Why? Man's voice: That's no compliment for a surgeon.
This was the Jewish hospital with really good doctors. Not only Jews came (as patients).
A second Jewish hospital was "m'shneres kheynem" this means (in Hebrew) "day rest of the sick"
What do I want to tell you? This place, I don't know why but it was called the "fashidine midne" (??)
Freight wagons used to come here
Eliot: Do you know what "fashidine midne" is? It's where the wagons stopped
These days trains stop but it's still called a (unintelligible)
The freight wagons would stop here and unload.
Fania: What do I want to say?
Do you see the balcony under the four windows? The balcony with (unintelligible)
That's where I lived before the war.
And you'll see in the (Yiddish) institute that there's a photo of my father, mother, sister and I.
And the words "electro-mechanic workshop" are written on the building.
Man's voice: Where was it? Fania: There, under the balcony. The entrance was right over there.
You see? Here's it is. You see, the balcony, right under it "Yokhele's electro-mechanic workshop"
Man's voice: Who are the people? Fania (pointing): That's me, that's my father, my mother, and my sister.
That's the place.
The court here was called "three factories"
One factory made candy. It was called "Nadzhieja", which means hope.
The boss worked in the factory along with his son and one worker.
But the candy was given to women who beaconed/winked from the houses.
I don't know, maybe you know the famous American professor, a mathematician Virshup.
No. They're from that house. He was the son of the boss.
Man: What's his name? Fania: Virshup.
The boss was in the hospital when we were put in the ghetto.
But he made a deal with the "house manager". He told him that he had hidden things.
That if the house manager went to get them he'd give them to him.
The house manager came back with the gestapo, they killed him without even removing the things.
The house manager was a really terrible man. We used to say "may the first bomb get him."
And there was a miracle. He was killed when Vilna was bombed.
That's the worst thing about this place.
Going on, there was a factory where small packs were made.
And the third "factory", since it was called a "factory" made cigarettes.
Tobacco was put in. These were our three "factories"
Only Jews lived here. The boss was Jewish, she lived in France.
That was her apartment, the balcony with the four windows over there.
That was the entrance, those are the stairs.
Oh, I want to show... "Minsk" (sp?) lived here. He lived above, over there.
There was a well known family of actors named "Sipovny"
He was one of the organizers of the Vilna theater troupe
Minsk was his wife. And she performed in the Ghetto theater and was killed at Ponar.
It's said, I read somewhere that when Sholem Aleichem came to Vilna he stayed in one of these apartments.
(Before the war) It was 33 Zawalna street, right now it's 35 Pylimo.