Testimony of David Himelfarb Shachar, born in Krasnosielc, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Syktyvkar, a Polish school next to Moscow, the Polish Army and a kolkhoz next to Kursk

Testimony of David Himelfarb Shachar, born in Krasnosielc, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Syktyvkar, a Polish school next to Moscow, the Polish Army and a kolkhoz next to Kursk Religious family. German occupation; murder of his father by SS men; escape to Bialystok; attitude of the local community; escape to the Soviet Union; life in Syktyvkar; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union; attends school; chess games with an NKVD agent; attends a school for gifted Polish children next to Moscow; draft into the Polish Army; reunion of the family in a kolkhoz next to Kursk; end of the war. Return to Poland, 1945; life in Bozagora; move to Walbrzych; joins a Gordonia group; work as a youth counselor; move to a yeshiva in Aix le Bains; move to Paris; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948; enlists in the Palmach; work in Kiryat Shmona; establishment of a technical services factory.