Testimony of Avraham Katz Neiman , born in Nove Barovo, Czechoslovakia, 1925, regarding deportation to Yazowice, escape and a life of wandering

Testimony of Avraham Katz Neiman , born in Nove Barovo, Czechoslovakia,1925, regarding deportation to Yazowice, escape and a life of wandering Family background: wealthy Orthodox family; death of his mother; Hungarian invasion,late 1938; Deportation to Yazowiece,summer 1941; bribery of the guards by his father so that the family would not sleep in the fortress; murders; escape with his brother; meeting with two sisters and another brother; crossing the Dniester; search for his father; arrival in the town of Czortkow; finding his uncle and living in a school; Aktionen; escape from Aktion; move to Nadworna; arrival of the Germans;he was taken with his two sisters; disappearance of his brother and the witness's escape from the deportation trucks; wanderings along the border; capture by Ukrainians; escape and joining a work group; smuggle home to Nove Barovo by his brother's friends; meeting with his grandmother; return of some family members; round-up of Jews, transfer to a camp in Budapest for quarantine and release after four months; return to Nove Barovo for a short time and then return to Budapest; German invasion,March 1944; drafted to a labor camp and sent to Turda for labor laying railroad tracks; escape from the camp and arrival in Bucharest; Liberation, summer 1944; sailing on the ship Taurus and arrival in Israel by train, 1944; joins the Jewish Brigade in the Engineering Battalion; discharged from the brigade,1946; absorption and rehabilitation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------