Testimony of Grzegorz Gregor Yaakov Hersch Greiner Pavlovsky, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Zamosc Ghetto, the Izbica Ghetto, and during wanderings among the villages in the vicinity, labor camps and Janowice

Testimony of Grzegorz Gregor Yaakov Hersch Greiner Pavlovsky, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Zamosc Ghetto, the Izbica Ghetto, and during wanderings among the villages in the vicinity, labor camps and Janowice Life before the war; learns in a "heder". Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; German occupation; attitude towards the Jews including executions; "Aktions"; life in the Zamosc Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; transfer to the Izbica Ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto, November 1942; escape; wanderings in Zamosc and the villages in the vicinity; transfer to labor camps including Janowice; help from farmers in the vicinity; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944. Wanderings in the villages; work as a cow herder for the farmers; life in the hospital in Tomaszow Lubelski; move to an orphanage run by nuns at the recommendation of the Polish Red Cross; attends school; move to an orphanage run by nuns in Lublin; attends high school; studies in a theological seminary for six years; completes his studies, 1958; ordination as a priest; life as a priest in Abramowice near Majdanek; writing of a newspaper article about Christianity in Poland and signing the article with his Jewish name as well as his Christian name; establishment of a monument in memory of the holy people of Zamosc and Izbica; receives information regarding his brother, Chaim, who survived and is living in Israel; aliya to Israel, April 1970; life in Jaffa as a Catholic priest; visit to the memorial monument in Poland, 1984.