Testimony of Issachar Trosman, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Rokitno Ghetto, in the partisans under the command of Miedwiediev, the coordination of a Jewish combat unit, wanderings and in Wiezyce

Testimony of Issachar Trosman, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Rokitno Ghetto, in the partisans under the command of Miedwiediev, the coordination of a Jewish combat unit, wanderings and in Wiezyce Riots by Ukrainians before the German occupation; coordination of a group of young Jews for the defense of Jewish property. Murder of Jews by the Germans; organization of the Judenrat headed by Slutzki; establishment of the Rokitno Ghetto, early 1942; liquidation of the community, late September 1942; escape to a forest with a group of young people; meets Soviet partisans under the command of Medvedev; meets his father and wounded brother; execution of a Jewish partisan named Kotz on the pretext that he was a commander in the Beitar movement in his city and an opponent of Communism; coordination of a Jewish combat unit of people originally from the towns of Rokitno, Korzec and Berezno, headed by the Jewish engineer, Misha Gildelman; witness meets his mother, sister and other Jews during wanderings in a forest; meets the partisan, Cwi Olszanski, in Wiezyce village; Kol Nidrei prayer by Jewish partisans in the forest; execution of three Jewish partisans named Shefsel Steindl, Gitelman and Turok, by the decision of the Soviet commanders; liberation, early January 1944; draft into the Red Army; murder of his father by a gang of Ukrainians and Bandera men in Rokitno; attempt to coordinate acts of revenge against murderers, with help from a Soviet officer; joins a convoy of Jews, as a military man, during their move to Poland, February 1945. Move to Germany; joins the activities of the Bericha organization; appointment as a police commander in a [DP] camp in Eschwege Bei Kassel; life in Cyprus for seven months; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.