Testimony of Yaakov Davner, born in Sniatyn, Poland in 1939, regarding his escape to the eastern territories of the Soviet Union

Testimony of Yaakov Davner, born in Sniatyn, Poland in 1939, regarding his escape to the eastern territories of the Soviet Union Outbreak of war; escape with his family members towards the eastern territories in a horse-drawn cart before the entry of the Wehrmacht; transfer to Stojanow as temporary residents (workforce for the Soviet authorities); transfer to Irkutsk in spring 1940; labor in forests in swamp areas; living conditions; riots by the laborers demanding to be transferred to another place; transfer to the Sverdlovsk region; release after the signing of an agreement between the government of the Soviet Union and the Polish government-in-exile regarding the freedom of movement of Polish citizens in the territory of the Soviet Union; transfer to Samarkand; transfer to Kyrgyzstan; most of the members of his family fall ill with typhus; life in Kyrgyzstan for three years; return to Poland in May 1945 via Krakow, and Lwow; antisemitic incidents on the way; acknowledging the magnitude of the disaster of the loss of all his family members who remained in Poland; transfer to a DP camp in the Linz area; transfer to Germany by train; aliya to Israel from the port of Marseilles on the ship "Negba" in 1949; rehabilitation and absorption.