Testimony of David Shmuel, born in Pernik, Bulgaria, 1938 regarding his family's experiences during the war

Details about Jewish families in Pernik; harsh antisemitism; his father was kidnapped from the street for forced labor after the German occupation, March 1941; a neighbor attempted to rape his mother; an attempt was made to murder his mother; he and his mother escaped from the house and wandered for about three and a half years in the Pernik area, without contact with other Jews; liberation by the Red Army. His father's return from forced labor; the aliya of his family to Israel, January 1949.