Testimony of Dov Grosman, born in Praszka, 1919, regarding his experiences in Wielun, Sienkielow, Czestochowa and work for a farmer in Blumenthal while using a false identity

Testimony of Dov Grosman, born in Praszka, 1919, regarding his experiences in Wielun, Sienkielow, Czestochowa and work for a farmer in Blumenthal while using a false identity Praszka community; life in Wielun from 1934 until the outbreak of the war. Entry of the Germans; decrees and restrictions on Jews; kidnapping of Jews on the streets; murder of Jews; deportation to camps; witness' escape from a church during a selection; obtains an Aryan birth certificate; life in Sienkielow; wounded during an "Aktion" in Sienkielow; escape to Czestochowa; labor in a HASAG casting factory; escape to the small ghetto in Czestochowa; obtains Aryan documents; travel to the north of Germany; work for a German farmer in a farm in Blumenthal under the guise of a Polish foreign citizen; attempt to draft him to the German Army; liberation by the Red Army, early May 1945. Return to Poland; antisemtism and the murder of Jews in Poland; life in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Italy; drafted to the Polish Army; service in Scotland; transfer to Israel during his military service; participation in Israel's War of Independence in the Alexandroni Brigade; service in the IDF until 1949.