SUZKEVER: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Will you repeat after me: I—and mention your name—citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics—summoned as a witness in this Trial—do promise and swear—in the presence of the Court—to tell the Court nothing but the truth—about everything I know in regard to this case.
[The witness repeated the oath in Russian.]
THE PRESIDENT: You may sit down, if you wish.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: Please tell me, Witness, where did the German occupation find you?
SUZKEVER: In the town of Vilna.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: You stayed in this town for a long time during the German occupation?
SUZKEVER: I stayed there from the first to nearly the last day of the occupation.
MR. COUNSELLOR SMIRNOV: You witnessed the persecution of the Jews in that city?
SUZKEVER: Yes.