by Rita Gabis
* “He was a man who liked to eat”: Holzman, interview, June 20, 2013.
* Work—where, for how long: Tauber, interview.
* “watered-down—tasteless”: Holzman, interview, June 20, 2013.
* airport was the S. Darius and S. Girėnas: The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police, ed. Samuel Schalkowsky (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014), Kindle ed., 112–19.
* “This one day—I remember”: Holzman, interview, June 20, 2013.
GIVEN BACK
* “apart from me”: National Archives, Certificate of Naturalization for Pranas Puronas, February 6, 1962.
* Anne Applebaum notes: Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History (New York: Doubleday, 2003), 506–26.
* Center for Genocide and Resistance: Kuodytė and Tracevskis, Siberia, 5.
ROBIN FISH
* impersonating another officer during his army service: LCVA, f. 355, ap. 1, b. 243.
WITNESSES FOR THE PROSECUTION
* Lili Holzman, at one point: Lili Holzman, interview by author, June 24, 2013.
* Jonas Maciulevičius was extradited: Maciulevičius personnel file, Ministry of Internal Affairs, LCVA, f. 377, ap. 1, b. 243.
* He was sentenced to death: IPN, OK.Gd, S 96/01/Zn, vol. IV, Judicial Decision of the Court in the Name of the Republic of Poland, 2 May 1950.
* The investigation was reopened: Ibid., vol. I, Investigation Commenced on 18.08.1997.
* The first was direct and narrow: Monika Tomkiewicz, interview by Maciej Bulanda, February 19, 2014.
* Yes, my grandfather was mentioned: IPN, OK.Gd, S 96/01/Zn, vol. I, Investigation Commenced on 18.08.1997, page 10–11.
* Yes, testimony placed Senelis at Poligon: Ibid., vol. III, Protocol of the Witness Hearing 26.04.1948, page 474.
* placed Senelis at the meeting: Ibid., vol. III, From Defendant’s Hearing, page 587.
* Senelis complain that Maciulevičius: Ibid., vol. V, Sentence of the Trial, page 852.
* “how the defendant Maciulevičius”: Ibid., vol. IV, Indictment/Prosecution Office in Olsztyn, 28.01.1950, page 787.
* Mykolas Kukutis, chief of the local white bands: Ibid., vol. I, Investigation Commenced on 18.08.1997, page 10–11.
* “became the commandant of the ghetto”: Ibid., vol. IV, Indictment/ Prosecution Office in Olsztyn, 28.01.1950, page 690.
* was infamous for his visits to the ghetto: Ibid., vol. III, Protocol of the Witness Hearing, 26.04.1948, page 481.
* “Puronas’s death brigades”: Ibid., vol. II, Account of Bohdan Polak, 1994, page 206.
* Maciulevičus claimed that during his tenure: Ibid., vol. IV, Indictment/ Prosecution Office in Olsztyn, 28.01.1950, page 673.
THE COMPANY WE KEEP
* “Other officers also arrived”: Ibid., vol. V, Witness Testimony of Bohdan Polak, page 932.
* confirmed by two different witnesses: Ibid., vol. III, Protocol of the Witness Hearing Szymon Buszkaniec, 26.04.1948, page 474; Ibid., 435.
* Three people confirm his presence at the meeting: IPN, OK.Gd, Sn/96/01/Zn, vol. III, Fragment of Defendant’s Testimony, page 587; vol. IV, Indictment/ Prosecution office in Olsztyn, 28.01.1950, page 650; vol. IV, Indictment/Prosecution Office at Olsztyn, 28.01.1950, page 655.
* made up by a “committee”: IPN, Ok.Gd, Sn96/01/Zn, Judicial Decision of the Court in the Name of the Republic of Poland, vol. V, page 842.
* given the Lithuanians a week: IPN, Ok.Gd, Sn96/01/Zn, Judicial Decision of the Court in the Name of the Republic of Poland, vol. V, page 848.
* the Germans there were only documenting: IPN, Ok.Gd, Sn96/01/Zn, vol. IV, Indictment/Prosecution Office in Olsztyn, 28.01.1950, page 781.
* “At the time when the crimes”: Ibid., vol. VI, Protocol of the Witness Hearing, 7.10.2002, page 1037.
* when the musicians Zdzisław Walulewicz: Ibid., Account of Bohdan Polak, 1994, page 206.
* Maciulevičius directed their executions: IPN, Ok.Gd, Sn96/01/Zn, Judicial Decision of the Court in the Name of the Republic of Poland, vol. V, page 844.
* code names “Hajduczek” and “Magda”: IPN, Ok.Gd, Sn96/01/Zn, vol. II, Witness Hearing, Warsaw, 9.10.2001, pages 287–289.
* a puzzle, even to Dr. Tomkiewicz: Monika Tomkiewicz, interview by Maciej Bulanda, February 19, 2014.
* At the camp in Prawieniszki: Ibid.
ONLY GOD KNOWS
* “the date of my second birth”: Weksler-Waszkinel, interview.
* Jakub Weksler’s name is given as Yankl Wexler: Excerpt from interview by Avrom Taytz, page 79, Folder VIA, Papers of Leib Koniuchowsky, RG-1390, YIVO.
* story in the New York Times: Roger Cohen, “For a Priest and for Poland, a Tangled Identity,” New York Times, October 10, 1999, http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/10/world/for-a-priest-and-for-poland-a-tangled-identity.html.
* “It felt like I was dropped”: Weksler-Waszkinel, interview.
* In the Yitzkor book for the Švenčionys region: Kanc, ed., Svizian Region, http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/svencionys/svencionys.html.
* Weksler-Waszkinel had an older brother: Guzenberg et al., Ašmenos, Svierių, Švenčionių, 518.
* demanding more money, more valuables: Weksler-Waszkinel, interview.
* The Wekslers survived the liquidation: “Vilnius Ghetto List,” LitvakSIG, http://www.litvaksig.org, accessed December 31, 2014.
* “I told the story of myself”: Weksler-Waszkinel, interview.
MEMORY
* the dangerous missions: Palevsky, interview.
* “In the memoirs I wrote”: Yitzhak Arad, “Memories: From the Depths of Memory and Before Forgetting,” personal papers translated by Irit Pazner Garshowitz.
* The court included my grandfather: Republic of Poland, 5:861–62, translated by Agnieszka Chęcińska.
* “How many members”: MacQueen, interview.
* In Israel, Lili had already: Holzman, interview, June 24, 2013.
* I looked at their cards: USHMM, RG-04, “Concentration and Other Camps,” RG-04.058, “Stuthoff Concentration camp records,” reel 96.
* “They were doing a selection”: Holzman, interview, June 24, 2013.
* Elena Las, a young Jewish widow: Wohnungs-Haushaltungsliste Buto-Ūkio, Lapas Nr. 13, LCVA, f. R743, b. 5901, l. 27–28.
EPILOGUE
* “Try to look”: Ona Šimaitė to Marijona Čilvinaitės, December 17, 1957, in Šukys, Epistolophilia. Original held by the Mažvydas National Library, Vilnius.
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