Polish Wilno & Market (Kaziuki) in 1936
NOTE: Thiis documentary movie was made shortly before II World War by the Germans (original version, with German comment, is also available in YT) and with the Lithuanian subtitles, which were added later, when that Polish city started in October 1939 - as the Lithuanian capital - the completely new chapter in its history. A short commentary in the end of my clip adds some historical background to the unbelievable tragedy of Polish inhabitants of Wilno in the years 1939-45. First - the Soviet occupation in September 1939 with the NKWD arrests and deportations of the Poles, then due to the Lithuanian-Soviet pact in October 1939 - the repressions on the Polish citizens, who were declared foreigners with no right to work or to use their native language - then, the repressions carried on by the Lithuanian-Nazi collaborative government, being co-responsible for the mass executions of the Polish intelligentsia in Ponary near Wilno as well as the ho