Shlomo Feldel

Testimony of Shlomo Feldel, born in Dębna, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Dębna, Sieniawa, Rava Russkaya, Talmenka, Barnaul, Berlin, Saarburg and more Childhood in a religious family in Dębna in a favorable economic situation. German occupation, 1939; receiving warnings from Austrian soldiers; entry of German soldiers; abuse of Jews; deportation of Jews; deportation to Sieniawa; escape to the Soviet side to USSR; transfer to Rava Russkaya; transfer by freight train to the Siberian region; death of his parents from starvation; work in deforestation and timber factory in Talmenka; detention for several months in a prison in Barnaul; enlistment into the Red Army, 1943; participation in battles over Poland and Berlin. End of the war, May 1945; defection to the American side; Saarburg DP camp; joining the Betar movement; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship "Ben Hecht"; arrest by British soldiers; deportation to Cyprus for about a year; aliya to Eretz Israel at the end of 1947.