Testimony of Semion Rosenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, Sobibor camp, escape after the Sobibor uprising and survival in the forests until liberation

Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Red Army, Sobibor camp, escape after the Sobibor uprising and survival in the forests until liberation His service in the Red Army until the outbreak of the war, 22 June 1941; breach of the Red Army line of defense by the Germans in the first month of combat; battles on the Mogilev front during the Red Army retreat; his unit is surrounded and witness is taken captive by the Germans; transfer to a POW camp in Minsk; about a POW named Alexander Pechorsky, who subsequently became the commander of the uprising in Sobibor extermination camp; POW camp life; contact with Jews in the Minsk Ghetto; murder of Jews at Trostinets; transfer to Sobibor along with Jewish POWs, autumn 1943; coordination of the Sobibor Uprising, planned by Red Army officer Alexander Pechorsky; preparations; outbreak of the uprising, 14 October 1943; escape from the camp according to plan; German response; searches for the escapees; escapees break into smaller groups when they reach the forest; hardships in the Wlodawa forest; murder of Jews by Polish gangs in the forest; manhunt by the Germans in the Chelm forests; life in a bunker in the forest with other Jews from the Sobibor Uprising, including Dov Freiburg, who subsequently lived in Israel; liberation by the Red Army, summer 1944; joins a military unit; combat in Poland; special missions to attack German fortifications; wounded in combat; transfer to a military hospital; release from the Red Army due to his wound. Move to Odessa; receives Soviet medals for outstanding bravery in battles against the Germans at the front; aliya to Israel, 1990.