Testimony of Joseph Rozin, born in 1922 in Kybartai, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, in the ranks of the partisans in the Rodniki forest, and in the Bielski family partisan camp

Testimony of Joseph Rozin, born in 1922 in Kybartai, Lithuania, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas ghetto, in the ranks of the partisans in the Rodniki forest, and in the Bielski family partisan camp Son of a wealthy Zionist family in Kybartai; plans for aliya to Eretz Israel, including buying a plot of land there; university studies in Kaunas; meeting with Jewish refugees from Germany and Poland; recruiting family members to the ranks of the Lithuanian division of the Red Army; the outbreak of war; the Soviet occupation; deportation of the rich and of Zionists to Siberia; elimination of Hebrew culture there; German occupation in 1941; pogroms against Lithuanian Jews by Lithuanians; establishment of a small ghetto and a large ghetto; the activities of the Judenrat and of the Jewish police; life in the crowded ghetto; hunger; murders at Fort 9; the burning of the Jewish hospital by Lithuanians; transfer to forced labor for the Organization Todt; cultural activity in the ghetto, including an orchestra; establishing an underground; Aktion of children and the elderly; murder of the Jewish policemen at Fort 9; escape to Rodniki Forest; joining the ranks of the partisans; joining the Bielski family partisan camp; volunteering for the ranks of the Red Army; desertion from the army; escape to Kaunas; escape to Poland; wandering; life in the "Dror" camp in the framework of the Aliya Bet organization; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1947; absorption.