ENDiaries, journals, notes - foundations of both individual and collective, or even universal memory. Registering events and experiences, commenting on them, and documenting the reality all belong to a phenomenon typical of each and every civilization. The memories of Tamara and Wiktor Lazerson and Maria Rolnikaite make the readers contemplate the Holocaust, remembering milions of both its victims and survivors. These reflections contribute to the historical context of Kaunas and Vilnius ghettos, based on a personal oral tradition presenting a Jewish family tragedy, in which both the Lazarsons and the Rolniks participated.