Testimony of Avraham Shulmeister, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union

Testimony of Avraham Shulmeister, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union Life in Lukow, attends a yeshiva and learns metalworking. Outbreak of the war; escape to a village and return, several days later; city, which was built of wood, is set on fire in order to make people flee; escape to an attic; people are shot in the market; Soviet occupation; escape to Brest Litowsk and then to Bialystok; sleeps in a synagogue with other refugees; move to Vitebsk; labor in metalworking for the Red Army; return to Poland with his sister whom he met in Kiev; requests a travel permit to Lwow; detention and deportation with other unmarried men to a detention camp for criminals; outbreak of war between the Soviet Union and Germany; deportation on foot in the direction of the forests and transfer to a Soviet transit camp; solitary confinement; penal camp; accused of establishing subversive elements; hospitalization for a foot infection; move to Uzbekistan. Work in various places until 1946; return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1948.