Mažoji leidykla publishing house, 2016

I am a post-war child. I was born in Vilnius October 8, 1946. I remember my life from about the age of four. Lithuanians, Jews (including Jews from the ghetto), Poles and Russians, we lived in an old building at the intersection of K. Giedrio and J. Garelio streets (now Šv. Ignoto and Dominikonų streets). Above us there lived Mr. Valteris, a former translator for the Gestapo. No one spoke to him about that, but everyone knew he had collaborated with the Germans.

For those living behind the iron curtain, for BBC radio listeners, Sam Yossman, who did the popular program Babushkin Sunduk (Grandmother’s Chest) and Perekati Pole (Tumbleweed), was better known by the pseudonym Sam Jones. Born and raised in Soviet Lithuania, Yossman decided after many years to record his memories in the book “Šaltojo karo samdinys” (Cold War Hired Hand).

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