Testimony of Mordechai Nortman Yassur, born in 1932 in Sarnaki, Poland, about his escape as a boy to the Soviet Union, his deportation to Siberia, and his experiences in the Caucasus, Uzbekistan, etc.

Testimony of Mordechai Nortman Yassur, born in 1932 in Sarnaki, Poland, about his escape as a boy to the Soviet Union, his deportation to Siberia, and his experiences in the Caucasus, Uzbekistan, etc. Offspring of an Orthodox religious family; Zionist activity before the war; German occupation ensues; Poland partitioned; witness escapes to the Soviet Union via Brest Litovsk; deported to Siberia; grandfather dies in Siberia; witness escapes to the Caucasus pursuant to agreement between the Soviet Union and the Polish Government-in-Exile; reaches Derbent; works on a Jewish kolkhoz (Soviet collective farm); Wehrmacht (Germany Army) forces close in; witness escapes to Uzbekistan; father dies; witness placed in a Jewish orphanage in Karshi; returns to Poland with the orphanage; joins a group of children from the Zionist Koordinacja for the reclamation of Jewish children; moves to Germany; immigrates to Eretz Israel illegally aboard the ha'apala vessel Max Nordau; deported to camps in Cyprus; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947; reunited with family members.