Testimony of Shalom Fenigshtein, born in Wolkowysk, Poland, in 1939, regarding his escape to Eastern Russia.

Testimony of Shalom Fenigshtein, born in Wolkowysk, Poland,in 1939, regarding his escape to Eastern Russia. Family background; Germans'occupation of Warszawa; residence of parents; father's leave to Wolkowysk,September 1939; father's sending a smuggler in order to bring pregnant mother to Wolkowysk; smuggler's success in having mother cross the Bug river and the birth of Shalom; referendum made by the Russians about people's will to get Russian identity; parents'refusal to get Russian identity and their deportation to Vologda; father's working in cutting trees; the head of the camp is Jewish; getting good treatment; Germans'approaching Moskva and decision to free refugee inmates,1944; moving to Kotlas; moving to Morashin; father's working as manager of a cooperative; parents arrest for 3 months for trading cigarettes and matches; liberation of parents with help of a smuggler for an important bribe; family's return to Poland,1946; short stay in Warszawa; moving to Dzierzoniow; staying there for about 5 years; birth of a brother,1947; joining the Hashomer Hatsair movement and the Gordonia movement; parents' aliya for medical reasons; Shalom's aliya via Venezia on board the ship "Glila" to Israel; getting to Haifa,1950; absorption and acclimatization.