Rescue story

Tamara Lazerson was imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto along with her parents, doctor and Vytautas Magnus University professor Vladimir Lazerson, her mother Regina and brother Viktoras. In early 1944 dentist Bronė Pajėdaitė asked whether Tamara would like to escape and hide with her former history teacher Petronelė Lastienė. Tamara escaped on April 7, 1944. After staying with Lastienė and then with her other teacher Veronika Žvironaitė, whom she loved dearly, Tamara was sent to Petronėlė Lastienė's sister Vera Effertienė at the Pakamačiai manor in Pasvalys district, where she safely reached the end of the war.