Avraham Aviel was a young boy of fourteen on 8 May 1942 when the ghetto was sealed off by the Gestapo. 'Anyone without passes could not leave the ghetto, and even those who had special passes could not leave '.

Abraham managed to escape from the ghetto and to meet his father in a nerby wood. But those with his father feared the boy was too small to join them as fugitives, and so he returned to the ghetto.

Despite hiding his mother, brothers and an uncle in the house before escaping, on his return the Germans had entered their house and were driving everyone out from hiding, beating them with a blow from a rubber truncheon as they exited the front door.

Many more than 2000 were driven from the ghetto to the pits on that move.

Source

the Holocaust - Martin Gilbert p 336