Testimony of Moshe Rubinfeld, born in Rybotycze, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences under Soviet rule in Dobromil and his evacuation to the Soviet Union with the outbreak of the war, 1941

Testimony of Moshe Rubinfeld, born in Rybotycze, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences under Soviet rule in Dobromil and his evacuation to the Soviet Union with the outbreak of the war, 1941 Escape from Krakow with the outbreak of the war between Poland and Germany; detention by the Polish police, accused of being a spy and sentenced to death; rescue from death thanks to intervention by a Polish colonel; work in Dobromil during the Soviet rule, 1939-1941; refuses to cooperate with NKVD members during the mass exiles of Jewish refugees who refused to accept Soviet citizenship and the exile of the Zionist parties' activists; evacuation to Soviet territory with the outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; labor as a factory supervisor in Serov. Visits in Rybotycze after the war; replies by local residents to his question concerning the fate of the Jews: "The Jews were sent to an unknown destination"; his last visit to Rybotycze before his emigration to the United States, 1988. Testimony by a Polish neighbor regarding the murder of the Jews in Rybotycze: Concentration of the city's Jews in the synagogues' courtyard, January 1942; order given to remove the Torah scrolls from the holy arks and throw them into a bonfire; refusal by the Jews and their murder on the spot; heavy rains fall towards evening, which terminates the burning of the Torah scrolls' parchment, and the remaining parchment, soaked in the Jews' blood, lays charred on the earth; murder of some of the Jews who had been in hiding next to the synagogues; remainder of the Jews are taken to an unknown destination and murdered; witness receives the remnants of the Torah scroll parchments from the Pole, and makes a vow to donate the parchments to Yad Vashem; witness carries out his vow.