Testimony of Chaim Bar Or, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rokitno, the Rokitno Ghetto and in hiding in forests in the area

Testimony of Chaim Bar Or, born in Rokitno, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Rokitno, the Rokitno Ghetto and in hiding in forests in the area Family background; community life; attends a Tarbut school. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; life under Soviet rule; German occupation, 1941; establishment of the Rokitno Ghetto and the Judenrat, 1942; yellow badge; mass murder of Jews in a forest; escape of the witness to a forest; wanderings in forests; life in hiding; death of his mother and sister in the forest; in hiding in a bunker, 1943-January 1944; work for farmers in the area in exchange for food; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Rokitno; stay in an orphanage; move to Poland, 1945; wanderings in Europe; aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1946.