rescuers of jews
Liepinaitienė Jadvyga
Jadvyga Stančiauskaitė-Liepinaitienė, who worked there from 1943, remembers:
...There was an order not to lock any of the doors during the night – usually we would lock them. The children who were brought, had their hair cut and their heads treated with potassium permanganate. The boys were kept separately from the girls. The Gestapo used to come to check on “Lopšelis” twice or three times a week in the middle of the night and we were threatened all the time that if they found at least one Jewish child, we would face death...
...We had contacts with the Kaunas Disabled Children’s Home on Apuolės St. 20, as the children over 3 years old were transferred there. All the children were registered with Lithuanian first names and last names. The register was kept by nurse Efimija Butkutė as well as nurses Pranciška Vitonytė, Elena Uborevičienė, and Marcelė Jasaitytė together with Dr. Baublys... The children were taken care of by nurses Ona Bartnikaitė, Onutė Samuolytė, Kazimierienė, and Auglys, the security guard of “Lopšelis”...
...As the war drew to an end, the Germans took over the first and the second floors and opened a German hospital. Somebody told Dr. Baublys that he was wanted by the Gestapo, so we had no doctor for about three months...
...There was an order not to lock any of the doors during the night – usually we would lock them. The children who were brought, had their hair cut and their heads treated with potassium permanganate. The boys were kept separately from the girls. The Gestapo used to come to check on “Lopšelis” twice or three times a week in the middle of the night and we were threatened all the time that if they found at least one Jewish child, we would face death...
...We had contacts with the Kaunas Disabled Children’s Home on Apuolės St. 20, as the children over 3 years old were transferred there. All the children were registered with Lithuanian first names and last names. The register was kept by nurse Efimija Butkutė as well as nurses Pranciška Vitonytė, Elena Uborevičienė, and Marcelė Jasaitytė together with Dr. Baublys... The children were taken care of by nurses Ona Bartnikaitė, Onutė Samuolytė, Kazimierienė, and Auglys, the security guard of “Lopšelis”...
...As the war drew to an end, the Germans took over the first and the second floors and opened a German hospital. Somebody told Dr. Baublys that he was wanted by the Gestapo, so we had no doctor for about three months...