Testimony of Joseph Harmatz, born in Rokiskis, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, activities in the underground alongside Abba Kovner and joining the partisans in the Rodniki forests

Testimony of Joseph Harmatz, born in Rokiskis, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, activities in the underground alongside Abba Kovner and joining the partisans in the Rodniki forests His mother's family was from the Baron family; learning Hebrew; learning in a Lithuanian framework in Vilna; Soviet occupation; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation, 1941; finding a hiding place in Vilna; disappearance of his mother and brother; life in the ghetto with his mother and younger brother until 1943; joining the FPO underground through the Communist Youth; work in the railroad station; work as a guard at a gate of the ghetto; activities to release Yitzhak Wittenberg from prison; going into the sewers with Abba Kovner; escaping; hiding; escape to the forest; life as a partisan; officer in the "Landhon" partisans camp in the Rodniki forests; taking part in the liberation of Vilna in 1944. Work in a government office in Lithuania; escape together with Abba Kovner via Lublin and Bucharest to Italy; reunion with his brother in Bucharest; activities in a revenge group against SS officers in Nuremberg; aliya to Eretz Israel; activities for the Jewish Agency; director of ORT in Israel and world ORT.