Testimony of Chaim Begam, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and as a refugee in the Soviet Union during the war, and the story of his aliya to Eretz Israel

Testimony of Chaim Begam, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and as a refugee in the Soviet Union during the war, and the story of his aliya to Eretz Israel Life in Warsaw before the war; his family's attitude to [Jewish] tradition and Zionism; start of the discrimination toward the Jews during the first days of the German occupation; establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto; transfer of his father to forced labor; escape from Warsaw with his father; wanderings and arrival to Pinsk; life in Pinsk with family members; detention of his father by the NKVD, and deportation of his father to a labor camp in Siberia (he perished); attempt to escape back to Warsaw; captured, and he is handed over to the Soviet police by the guide; deportation to Siberia; escape from the train, en route; wanderings; escape to Tashkent; life in Tashkent with a group of laborers who are young people; studies, and work in manufacturing; return to Warsaw after the war; he joins a Zionist "kibbutz" in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel; his stay in Italy; captured during his attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, and life in Cyprus; aliya to Israel in 1949; adaptation, and arrival to Kibbutz Sha'ar HaGolan; murder of his mother and his younger sister in Treblinka camp in 1942.