Lily fue internada en un ghetto después que los alemanes ocuparan Vilna en 1941. Fue forzada a trabajar hasta la liquidación del ghetto en 1943, cuando fue deportada al campo de Kaiserwald cerca de Riga, Latvia. Desde ahí fue mandada a trabajar al campo de trabajos forzados de Duenawerke. Fue deportada por barco a través del mar Báltico al campo de Stutthof y fue llevada al campo de trabajos forzados cercano. Lily fue liberada durante una marcha de la muerte que terminó en el pueblo de Krumau, en Prusia Oriental, en 1945.
And we knew the only way we can survive if we will stay in the front. Because if you were standing in the back and you couldn't walk with the column, you were just shot. And then I saw young girls walk and walk and all of a sudden they became like frozen, straightened their legs instead and they were just frozen mummies falling right with their face on the snow. The German didn't have to shoot them. This is how they fell. One of my friends started to feel bad, and we took her and I was from one side, and another of my friend, and we were dragging her, practically dragging her, she couldn't, her legs were frozen. So the guard noticed it. He, he, he told the column to stop, he took her to a turnip field, and we heard a shot. He shot her right there.
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