Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences in German captivity in Minsk, Sobibor, with the partisans in the Chelm forests and combat in the Red Army

Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences in German captivity in Minsk, Sobibor, with the partisans in the Chelm forests and combat in the Red Army Military service in the Red Army in Riga before the war between the Soviet Union and Germany. Outbreak of the war; participation in battles at the Smolensk-Mogilev front; taken into German captivity; life in an improvised German POW camp; transfer to a POW camp in Minsk; camp life including labor in Minsk and contact with Jews in the Minsk Ghetto; transfer to Sobibor; organization of an underground; outbreak of the Sobibor uprising, 14 September 1943; escape to the Chelm forests; life in the forest including the murder of Jews by Polish gangs; meets Red Army soldiers; drafted into the Red Army; wounded in battles on German territory; hospitalization in military hospitals; release from the Red Army as a disabled veteran. Life in Ukraine after the war; aliya to Israel, 1992.