Testimony of Jtzchak Sztajnhart, born in Warsaw, 1918, regarding his experiences in the training camp in Grochow, in Vilna, on the kibbutz at Schavli, and performing forced labor on a kolhoz in Russia and in Uzbekistan

Testimony of Jtzchak Sztajnhart, born in Warsaw, 1918, regarding his experiences in the training camp in Grochow, in Vilna, on the kibbutz at Schavli, and performing forced labor on a kolkhoz in Russia and in Uzbekistan Parents; economic circumstances; fate of each member of his family; activities in the Freihart movement; merger of Freihart with Hechalutz Hatzair; comparison of youth movements and information about prominent leaders in the Zionist movement before the war. Escape towards Kowel, and joining the training camp at Grochow with the outbreak of the war, 1939; being caught by the Red Army, and deportation to Vilna as refugees; life as refugees; setting up a kibbutz for pioneers from Poland in Schavli, together with a group from Warsaw, 1940; escape from Lithuania to Russia, via Latvia, June 1941; arrival in Yoshkar-Ola; work in a kolkhoz; from there to the Pravda kolkhoz in Urgench; co-existence with the Uzbeks. Return home with repatriation, late 1944; atmosphere in Poland after the war; pogrom in Kielce; move to the Zionist immigrants camps in Germany as part of his Zionist activities; manages training seminars for future immigrants; aliya with Aliya Bet to Eretz Israel, 1948; his attitude toward the terms "Holocaust survivor" and "She'erit Hapletah".