Testimony of Mark Mashuk, born in Ocheretyanka, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Novograd Ghetto, the Krasnoarmeysk Ghetto and combat in a partisan unit

Testimony of Mark Mashuk, born in Ocheretyanka, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Novograd Ghetto, the Krasnoarmeysk Ghetto and combat in a partisan unit German air-raids on Novograd; wanderings in the Zhitomir region after the Red Army retreat; the Novograd Ghetto; murder of Novograd’s Jews next to open killing pits in Yagodinka, September 1941; rescued by a Volksdeutsche; the Krasnoarmeysk Ghetto; “Aktion”; murder of the Krasnoarmeysk Jews, December 1941; detention in Krasnoarmeysk prison until September 1943; removal from the prison by a Soviet POW who serves as the driver of a Ukrainian police commander; move to the partisan area in the Zhitomar forests; joins a partisan unit united by Melikov and serves as a scout in a unit of select patrollers; act of revenge on a collaborator who had murdered the witness’ father; meets partisans in General Kowpak’s division; combat and activities against the Germans; meets Red Army soldiers, December 1943. Service in the Soviet Army, 1948-1969; aliya to Israel, 1990.