Pinkhas Rozengarten

Testimony of Pinkas Rosengarten, born in Nowy Sacz, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Nowy Sacz, prisons in the Soviet Union and service in Iran as a military chaplain in Anders Army Life before the war; education; ordination as a rabbi; move to Krakow; academic studies; return to Nowy Sacz; work as a teacher in a Tarbut high school; community life; establishment of a Hashomer Hadati chapter. German occupation; forced labor; escape to the Soviet Union; arrest on the charge of espionage; detention in various prisons; prison life including forced labor and illnesses; hospitalization; pardon after the outbreak of the war, 1941; enlists in Anders Army; military service as a chaplain; displays of antisemitism; establishment of a separate camp for Jewish soldiers. Move to Iran; contact with the Teheran children; hospitality from the Jewish community of Iraq; maneuvers in Eretz Israel; transfer to the Jewish Brigade and Haganah; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; marriage, 1947.