Testimony of Tzvi Bak, born in Chtelnica, Czechoslovakia, in 1924, regarding his escape from deportation, his life under false identity and his joining the partisans.

Testimony of Tzvi Bak, born in Chtelnica, Czechoslovakia,in 1924, regarding his escape from deportation, his life under false identity and his joining the partisans. Life in traditional family of average financial situation; division of the state and Slovakia becoming sponsoring country,1939; escaping to border with hope to cross it; capture; he's returned to border; crossing border; re-capture and taken back home; getting working permit; trial against the family for keeping business; bribing the judge and acquitment; also bribing in order to avoid parents'deportation,Spring 1942; escape from" Aktion" to a friend goy(non Jewish); getting aryan papers; traveling to brother in Hummene; working on rail tracks in nearby city and living under false identity; moving to working in Porubka; moving to work in another city and from there to Brezno; arrest by a gestapo man and liberation on condition he leaves city; working in Varnov and later in Svidnik; at end of job, joining the partisans in forest of Banska Stiavnica; breaking out of Slovak rebellion,summer 1944 and fighting Germans; Tzvi is sent to Austria in order to gather information; moving via home in Chtelnica and collecting information,Winter 1945; liberation,Spring 1945; sailing to Israel and exile to Cyprus,1947; getting to Israel,1949; absorption and rehabilitation.