Chasia Spanerflig

“The culture! You shouldn't forget the culture! A nation forgetting its own culture can't survive! It has to have its own culture!

And there was a theatre. Where the Jewish Council was. (…) We went to the theatre. We weren't afraid, even though Germans went there too. You never knew whether you would be shot while leaving the theatre. Nevertheless, we went there, and we sang.”

Told by Chasia Spanerflig, who sang in the Vilna Ghetto choir. She now lives in Vilnius.