Testimony of Yaakov Ginsburg, born in Lenin, regarding his experiences with the partisans in the Polesie forests

Testimony of Yaakov Ginsburg, born in Lenin, regarding his experiences with the partisans in the Polesie forests Annexation of Polesie to the Soviet Union in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; the Soviet period; drafted to the Red Army; military service in Kobryn; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, 22 June 1941; collapse of the border line; the Red Army soldiers flee; escape from his army unit and return to Lenin; the cruel military regime in Lenin; deportation along with 60 skilled craftsmen to a labor camp in Hancewicze; escape from the camp to the Polesie forests with a group of 320 Jews; meets Soviet partisans; joins a partisan unit under the command of an antisemite; murder of Jews by Soviet partisans; antisemitism; establishment in the Polesie forests of a family camp for ghetto survivors; appointment of the witness as the person responsible for camp supplies; murder of the Lenin Gebietkommissar by a cousin; the German manhunt in the Polesie forests, 1944; partisans hang German soldiers in the forest; the parachuting of physicians and military equipment into the partisan forests during the German manhunt; liberation, summer 1944. Repatriation to Poland, 1946; aliya to Israel on the "Exodus" ship, 1948.