Testimony of Mordekhai Altman, born in Izbica, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Izbica Ghetto and various hiding places

Testimony of Mordekhai Altman, born in Izbica, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Izbica Ghetto and various hiding places Life before the entry of the Germans including riots and the murder of Jews by Poles. Brief Soviet rule; return entry of the Germans; kidnappings to forced labor; looting by Polish mobs; deportation of the Jews to Bialobrzegi; deportation of Jews from Germany and Czechoslovakia to Izbica; concentration of Jews from the Izbica surroundings; establishment of ghetto and the Judenrat; deportation of Jews to Belzec; "Aktion" of 15 November 1942; living in hiding; the final "Aktion" in Izbica, Pesach 1943; deportation of Jews to Sobibor; in hiding with the help of a German during the liquidation of ghetto; living in various hiding places; liberation by the Red Army, July 1944. Living in Zamosc; activity by the Jewish committee of Lublin; help given to "She'erit Hapletah"; meeting soldiers from the Jewish Brigade; living on a kibbutz in France; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.