Testimony of Piotr Shaposhnikov, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1923, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier at the Ukrainian front and with Soviet partisans in the Bilgoraj Forests as part of the Kovpak unification

Testimony of Piotr Shaposhnikov, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1923, regarding his experiences as a Red Army soldier at the Ukrainian front and with Soviet partisans in the Bilgoraj Forests as part of the Kovpak unification Drafted into the Red Army, 1942; military studies; transfer to the front; wounded; hospital life; recovery; transfer to the Ukrainian front; surrounded by the German Army; escape; joins a partisan unit in the Bilgoraj Forests as part of the partisan unification by Kovpak; life in hiding in the forests with Jews who had survived the ghettos; surrounded by the Germans; deaths of many partisans; drafted into the Red Army, August 1944; rooting out anti-revolutionary bases and opponents of the regime in the pre-1939 Polish areas; discharge from the army. Life in Ukraine including antisemitism; aliya to Israel, 1975.