Rochelle Blackman Slivka was born in 1922 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilna, Lithuania). In 1941, Germany occupied Vilna and began deporting Jews to Ponary, where they were shot. Slivka's family was confined to the Vilna Ghetto, where her mother died. In 1943, she was sent to the Kaiser Wald camp in Latvia and then to the Stutthof camp. She and her sister were liberated in 1945.

1. By: Rachel Kirtley Rochelle Blackman Slivka

5. The Vilna Ghetto

10. Works Cited Holocaust Personal Histories http://blackboard.rcs.k12.va.us/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_5298_1%26url%3d Kaiser Wald 1 http://images.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/v/vi/vilna1.jpg Vilna Ghetto Guards http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CbwnjooteyI/SW7cMRC1ieI/AAAAAAAAgAc/vEpuxpIigAU/s400/8230.jpg Vilna Ghetto 2 http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/76/76836.jpg Camp http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/images/kaiserwald.bmp Rochelle Blackman Slivka http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/images/rs.jpg Stutthof Camp http://www.4x4foto.com/blog/wp-content/gallery/bstlenk/stutthof1.jpg Vilna Ghetto Map of Poland http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/eefaq/poland.gif Guards http://wzus1.ask.com/r?t=a&d=us&s=a&c=p&ti=1&ai=30751&l=dir&o=0&sv=0a5c425c&ip=46bc271e&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fnova%2Fholocaust%2Fimages%2Ftime43_03_warsaw.jpg Estonia http://wiki.majorityrights.com/_media/holocaust/fake_photos/pyre.jpg Estonia Guards http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/photo/lc/image/74/74377.jpg Germany http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39899000/jpg/_39899172_01_09_1939hitler238.jpg Death March http://web.commercialappeal.com/07/holocaust/webdeathmarch.jpg Ponary http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/einsatz/images/ponary%20corpses%201943.jpg