Translation of Dziomek Erlbaum's memoirs about his experiences in Borysław, the Borysław ghetto, the Borysław camp, and the forests in 1941–1944

Translation of Dziomek Erlbaum's memoirs about his experiences in Borysław, the Borysław ghetto, the Borysław camp, and the forests in 1941–1944 - English translation of memoirs written by Dziomek Erlbaum in the Bad Reichenhall displaced-persons camp in October 1947 for the CHC (Central Historical Commission), produced by Kelly DeMartini: Oppression of Jews as soon as the Germans enter Borysław on July1, 1941; Ukrainian pogroms against Jewish townspeople in early July 1941; forced labor; witness put to work in the petroleum industry; mass murder of Jews in the forest adjacent to Borysław in late November 1941; Jews of Borysław forced to make a "contribution" in July 1942; murder of Jews of Borysław begins on August 3, 1942; deportation to Belzec in early August 1942; group of Jews, including witness and his wife, escapes into the forests in October 1942; group members other than witness captured and executed in autumn–winter 1942; witness returns to the Borysław ghetto and is sent to the Borysław camp; most Jews in the camp (apart from forty, including witness) sent to Płaszów in April 1943; witness interned in the Borysław camp for thirteen months; witness escapes to the forest with a group of Jews; obtains weapons; witness captured in spring 1944 and sent back to the Borysław camp; witness injured by chief of Ukrainian police; witness evacuated to forests by his partisan friends; area liberated in 1944.