Testimony of Yzhuk Iuzuk, born in Pohost Zagorodny, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Pohost Zagorodny, the Hancewicze camp, with the partisans in the Pinsk region, as a Red Army soldier in Warsaw and other places

Testimony of Yzhuk Iuzuk, born in Pohost Zagorodny, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Pohost Zagorodny, the Hancewicze camp, with the partisans in the Pinsk region, as a Red Army soldier in Warsaw and other places Life before the war; from a traditional family. German occupation; mass murder of Jews by shooting; humiliation of Jews; imposition of restrictions on the Jews including confiscation of property, robbery and deportation of Jews to forced labor; deportation to the Hancewicze camp with his brother; camp life including labor; escape with many inmates; escape within the forests in small groups; help from local residents; collaboration of local residents with the Germans; organizing a Jewish partisan battalion; life in the Jewish battalion; dissolution of the battalion and transfer to the Ordzhonikidze mixed battalion; life as part of the Kuibyshev Brigade; participation in activities of the Molotov-United Pinsk Division in the northeast Pinsk region; life as a Red Army soldier; participation in the liberation of Warsaw; being wounded; life in an armored unit in Germany; end of the war. Move to Pinsk; life in Pinsk; marriage to a survivor of the Rudina Ghetto; visit to the sites where Jews were murdered in Pohost and the area, 1990.