Testimony of Zalman Dukstulski, born in Dubinowo, 1918, regarding his experiences in Woronowo, Dubinowo, Lida prison and with partisans in Vilna area forests

Testimony of Zalman Dukstulski, born in Dubinowo, 1918, regarding his experiences in Woronowo, Dubinowo, Lida prison and with partisans in Vilna area forests Childhood without a father; education in Vilna. Entry of the Soviets, 1940; return to Dubinowo; entry of the Germans, 1941; escape of Jews towards Russia; deportation to a ghetto; forced labor removing peat; wanderings between Vilna and Dubinowo; marriage; detention; detention in a Lida prison; murder of the witness' mother and wife after bring informed on; joining the partisans in the forest; rescue of Jews from the Vilna Ghetto; hiding Jews with a farmer and building a shelter for them in the forest; antisemitism among the partisans; murder of hostages by partisans; drafted to the Red Army; stay in Woronowoat at the end of the war. Marriage; stay in Slonim with the army and accompanied by his wife; illegally crossing the border and arriving to a kibbutz in Germany; move with his wife and baby to Rome, 29 November 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, January 1948.