Testimony of Baruch Eizenstark Amitz, born in Skalat, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Skalat and in Borki Wielkie and Kamionka camps, with the partisans and in the Red Army

Testimony of Baruch Eizenstark Amitz, born in Skalat, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Skalat and in Borki Wielkie and Kamionka camps, with the partisans and in the Red Army His family background; membership in Bnei Akiva; attempts to make aliya to Eretz Israel; antisemitism. Annexation to the Soviet Union, 1939; deportation of well-to-do people to Siberia; German occupation, 1941; murder of Jews by the Einsatzgruppen; deportation to a labor camp in Borki Wielkie; establishment of a ghetto, 1942; forced labor; labor in Kamionka camp; escape to a forest with the help of a Pole; joins a group of fighters under the command of Cheichok and Rozenblat; attacks on Ukrainians; confiscation of weapons; help from villagers; joins a partisan brigade from Wolyn under the command of Kovpak, 1943; battles in the Carpathians; combat in the Jewish partisan brigade number seven; liberation; move to Poland, August 1944; officers training course; joins a Polish unit in the Red Army; participation in the liberation of Warsaw, Berlin and Oranienburg. Escape to Austria and Italy, summer 1945; joins aliya training; aliya to Israel, 1948.