Testimony of Haina Rabinovitz, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1916, regarding her experiences in Wisniewice and with the partisans

Testimony of Haina Rabinovitz, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1916, regarding her experiences in Wisniewice and with the partisans Occupation of Wisniewice by the Germans at the end of 1941; forced labor in the Bogdanowka railroad station; return to Wisniewice along with other young women just before the first "Aktion"; the hanging of a number of Jews in the market place; her escape to a forest before the "Aktion"; hardships endured in the surrounding villages, and the meeting with escapees from the ghetto in the forest; joins the Chapaev regiment of Russian partisans under the command of a Russian major; participation in combat missions, among them to inflict damage on the railroads and other transportation lines; description of the partisan fighting in the Naliboki forests; acts of revenge against farmers who collaborated with the Germans; meets Red Army soldiers in the summer of 1944. The return to Wisniewoce after the war; repatriation to Poland, 1946; wanderings with the goal of arriving in Eretz Israel, by way of Czechoslovakia and Austria; illegal immigration to Israel; detention by the British and deportation to Cyprus, aliya to Israel about a year after the establishment of the State.