Testimony of Moshe Trosman, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Rokitno Ghetto and with the partisans

Testimony of Moshe Trosman, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in the Rokitno Ghetto and with the partisans Life in Rokitno until the war. Soviet occupation; travel to relatives in Malin; German occupation of Wolyn; return home; decrees, anti-Jewish legislation, yellow badge; relatives from the surrounding areas join them; handing over all valuables to the Germans; move to an area that eventually becomes part of the ghetto; Rokitno Ghetto; concentration of all the local residents, August 1942; selection by age and gender; sudden mass escape after a woman shouts "Gewalt"; witness falls; injury; rescue by his father; fate of the Jews who remained in the ghetto who were later murdered in Sarny; escape of his grandfather while naked; his family finds hiding places in forests; search for the partisans and joins Medvedov's unit; life with the partisan unit; dispersion of his family and their ways to survive; obtains food in exchange for woolen items knit by his mother; stories and episodes during their wanderings; return to Rokitno, January 1944; fear of the Ukrainians; attends a school; murder of his father by Bandera men, February 1945; death of his brother, a Polish Army officer, in Berlin, several days before the end of the war. Aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, winter, 1947; detention in Cyprus by the British; smuggle of the witness from Cyprus to Haifa in a sack; absorption in Eretz Israel; visit to his family's former home.