Testimony of Cwi Hirsz Olszanski, born in Stare Siolo, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in German captivity in the Chernigov vicinity and Osipovichi, using a false identity, in the Berezow Ghetto, in the partisans in the Rokitno-Tomashgorod area, and in other places

Testimony of Cwi Hirsz Olszanski, born in Stare Siolo, Poland, 1908, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, in German captivity in the Chernigov vicinity and Osipovichi, using a false identity, in the Berezow Ghetto, in the partisans in the Rokitno-Tomashgorod area, and in other places Outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; draft into the Red Army; taken to German captivity in the Chernigov vicinity; transfer to Osipovichi, near Minsk; POW camp life as a Ukrainian, for seven weeks; escape from captivity; return to Stare Siolo; capture by Ukrainian policemen; handed over to the Germans; transfer to a prison in Stolin; release from detention due to efforts by a Jewish translator named Berger; move to the Berezow Ghetto; murder of Jews in the vicinity, Elul (August) 1942; escape along with other Jews; joins the partisans brigade of Plaskonosov; appointment as the commander of a sabotage unit; implementation of partisans activities; explosion of railroad trains; mining of bridges and railroad tracks in the Rokitno-Tomashgorod area; execution of collaborators and murderers of Jews; assembly of Jewish partisans from various brigades for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur prayers in a minyan; rescue of four Jewish children in a village in Tatylne; move of the children via Poland to Germany, after the liberation; crosses the front line in Kamionka Strumilowa, in the Lwow area; continuation of partisans activities at the German rear; meets General Kowpak in the main headquarters in Kiev. Receives certificates and medals for excellence; repatriation to Poland, October 1945; move to Germany; activities in the Bericha organization; aliya to Israel, 1950.