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[email protected] for further information about this collection LAURINAITIENĖ, Genovaitė Lithuania Documentation Project Lithuanian RG-50.473*0085 In this interview Genovaitė Pupšytė-Laurinaitienė, born in Veiviržėnai, near Klaipėda, in 1926 talks in detail about her efforts to save a Jewish girl, for which she has been recognized as one of the Righteous of Nations by Yad Vashem. She recalls witnessing the Jews of Veiviržėnai being rounded up and the men sent to be executed; while the women were taken to the village of Trepkalnis near Veiviržėnai, where they lived through the summer. Mrs. Laurinaitienė talks about her neighbor, who was dating a Jewish girl, and would ask her to accompany him, when he would go to see the girl at the ghetto in Trepkalnis. She then describes hearing the women being killed and witnessing the looting of clothes after the massacre by the local women. She goes on to explain how she ended up in Varniai, where she befriended a Lithuanian partisan, who helped her to save a Jewish girl, a survivor of the massacre of the Jews of Varniai. Tape 1 of 2 [01] 00:34:12 - [01] 04:26:12 00:00:37 – 00:04:28 A: My maiden name is Pupšytė-Laurinaitienė. Whichever is easier for you. Q: Tell us your first name too. A: Genovaitė Pupšytė-Laurinaitienė, and that’s it. Q: What year were you born in and where? A: On the first of July, 1926 in Veiviržėnai town, Klaipėda district. And that‘s it. Maybe you want the old one? [In the old system] it was in Kretinga district, and now it is in Klaipėda district.