Testimony of Joseph Rubinstein, born in Zakrzowek, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences using a false identity, with the Soviet partisans in the Janow forests, eastern Ukraine, with the Fyodorov partisans near Lubieszow and in other places

Testimony of Joseph Rubinstein, born in Zakrzowek, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences using a false identity, with the Soviet partisans in the Janow forests, eastern Ukraine, with the Fyodorov partisans near Lubieszow and in other places Life before the war. Anti-Jewish decrees; forced labor; payment of ransom; obtains a forged document with the name Jozef Urbaniak, with the aim to help the family's livelihood; detention; escape with friends before transfer to Janiszew; life in the vicinity among farmers; return to Zakrzowek one day before the mass murder of Jews, autumn 1942; murder of Jews; deportation of the remaining Jews to Krasnik; transfer of the Jews to Zaklikow; escape to a forest; murder of his mother, sister and family members by Poles; life in the forest with weapons including an act of revenge with friends; move to the Janow forests, spring 1943; meets Soviet partisans; joins a partisans unit of Semyon Frolov; move to the eastern Ukraine; joins the unified partisans group of Fyodorov; receives help from the Soviet Union including the parachuting of food, combat weapons and medicines; activities near Lubieszow; attitude of the partisans' command toward the Jews; relations with Poles and Ukrainians; draft of Polish farmers to the partisans ranks; combat; liberation, summer 1944; wounded; hospital life; combat with the Polish partisans brigade of Dabrowski. Receives monetary help from the Polish authorities.