Meir Simkha Feldblum

Testimony of Meyer Simcha Feldblum, born in Skiemonys, Lithuania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Podbrodzie Ghetto and in hiding His childhood; attends a Hebrew school and learns in a yeshiva. Life under Soviet rule; outbreak of the war during a visit to relatives in Podbrodzie, 1941; Podbrodzie Ghetto life; liquidation of the ghetto, August 1941; hidden by Polish farmers; his uncle and aunt join them in hiding; good attitude by the people who hid them; escape to a forest, late 1942; help from Polish farmers; life in hiding with his uncle, aunt, two cousins and then another couple with a baby girl join them; move from one hiding place to another due to fear of exposure; life in a forest; purchase of food from farmers; liberation, summer 1944. Return to Alunta; expulsion of the non-Jew living in their home; harassment by the Lithuanians; move to Vilna; joins a Poalei Agudat Israel "kibbutz" in Lodz, 1946; travel to France; travel to the United States, 1947; studies and life in the United States; aliya to Israel, 1985.