Fried Bodenstein, Dina, "A Testimony not to be Forgotten (2008) — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

Dina Fried Bodenstein's years of adolescence in Vilna Ghetto, and later in the concentration camps in Latvia and Poland, are deeply ingrained in her memory. She recounts and recreates them as a firsthand eyewitness, who cannot forget those days, even years later. The horror, the dreadfulness, the humiliation, the trauma and the sense of helplessness that were her lot, as well as that of her family and the residents of the city and the ghetto where she grew up, are woven into a shattering and oppressive testimony that depicts the predatory conduct of the Nazi war machine, and on the other hand, the experience and struggle of a helpless girl, clinging by her fingernails to whatever she could to survive that dark period. She succeeds by the power of resourcefulness, force of will and a survival instinct that never left her even in the darkest and most desperate hours, until she makes aliyah to Eretz Israel at the end of the war, builds a home there and starts a family.