Shlomo Tzveifler

Testimony of Shlomo Tzwaifeler, born in Buczacz, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in Kopyczyńce and using a false identity with a non-Jewish family in the area Life before the war; community life; attends school and a "heder"; relations with the local population. Annexation to the Soviet Union; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation; murder of his father; deportation of the family to Kopyczyńce; camp life; escape to a forest; hidden by a non-Jewish family; assumes a false identity; work in agriculture; leaves the family; return to Buczacz; liberation. Move to Poland; return to Judaism; move to Czechoslovakia; move to Germany; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; participation in the War of Independence; absorption.