Testimony of Motl Bass, born in Wlodzimierz Wolynski, Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in Wlodzimierz Wolynski, Budapest and more.

Testimony of Motl Bass,born in Wlodzimierz Wolynski,Poland in 1926, regarding his experiences in Wlodzimierz Wolynski,Budapest and more. Childhood in religious Jewish family with 4 children in Wlodzimierz Wolynski; his father was a teacher in the network of schools of "Tarbout"(Culture); Yiddish was spoken at home; attending the "Heder" and Polish school; Russian occupation,1939; closing of Jewish schools; arrival of many refugees from Poland; beginning of war; air-raids during first days of war; burning down of Jewish quarter; Jews fleeing without taking clothes; establishment of ghetto in centre of city; fencing the ghetto; deportation of all Jews to ghetto, April 1942; beginning of mass murders of Jews,September 1942; girst murder in Piatydni; hiding of the children by his mother; return to ghetto; father's disappearing from ghetto; starvation; getting food from Ukrainians and its distribution by Judenradt; mass murders and murder of all his relatives; escape to the Polish partisans under false non Jewish identity; participating in tough battles; enrolment into red army; getting with red army to Budapest; aliya to Israel,1995.