Moshe Knebel

Testimony of Moshe Kanabel, born in Krasnobrod, Poland, 1923, regarding joining a partisan company and fighting in the Red Army during the war Childhood in Krasnobrod; life in the town before the war. The German occupation and the systematic extermination of the Jews beginning in 1940; murder of father and brother by Polish policemen; massacre of family members along with other Jews in the town bakery; escape to the forests and work for peasants in the villages of Pankow and another village for a year and a half; joining Russian partisans and fighting in the ranks of the partisans for a year and a half; enlistment into the Red Army, 1944; fighting and wounding in the Battle of Berlin, 1945; discharge from the army, 1946; return to Krasnobrod; attempted murder by three Polish childhood friends; escape and recruitment to secret police; two years of police activity and retaliatory actions against Poles who collaborated in the murder of Jews; studies; working, starting a family. Aliya to Israel in 1957; absorption.