David Turovitz

Testimony of David Turovitz, born in Glinne, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Glinne, the Rokitno Ghetto, the Berezow Ghetto and wanderings in the Polesia forests with the partisans Life in a middle-class family in the village of Glinne, the Sarny district; 10 Jewish families in Glinne; attends the Tarbut school in Rokitno. Soviet occupation and nationalization of his father's store, 1941; labor for the Soviets; deportation to the Rokitno Ghetto, October-November 1941; life in the Rokitno Ghetto until its liquidation, 26 August 1942; escape to the forest from the market square, the Germans' assembly point for the Rokitno Jews; return to Glinne with two cousins; move to an uncle in the Berezow Ghetto; German occupation and escape to the forest; wanderings in the forest; meets his father and friends; contacts with farmers; meets Russian partisans under Sido Artemovitz Kowpak; joins the partisans with his father; wanderings for four or five months with the partisans in the Polesia district; life in a farmer's tent in the Polesia district until liberation, late 1944. Return to Rokitno with his father; repatriation and return to Gleiwitz, June 1945; establishment of a kibbutz and connection with the Bericha organization; move to the DP camp at Fohrenwald, via Bratislava and Prague; move to the Hochlieben-Vysokaliben camp near the Hashomer Hatzair group planning to found a new settlement; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel via France, summer 1947; life in Kibbutz Yechiam during the siege, 1948; life in Kibbutz Barkai until 1949; marriage, 1950; adjustment to Israel.