Testimony of Pinchas Elstein, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, regarding his escape to the Soviet Union and his experiences in Tashkent

Testimony of Pinchas Elstein, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936, regarding his escape to the Soviet Union and his experiences in Tashkent Childhood in Warsaw before the war; outbreak of war; escape to the Soviet Union in the first days after the outbreak of the war; arrival in Tashkent; life in Tashkent; living in barracks for refugees; labor of his mother in a shoe factory for the Red Army; hunger; disease; transfer to an orphanage; attending school; end of the war; return to Poland; arrival in Warsaw; transfer to Szczecin; life in a UNRRA camp for several months; joining Youth Aliyah; aliya to Israel via France in 1948 with her mother and husband on the ship "Pan York"; absorption.