Testimony of Ishak Soloduha, born in Olszany, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Olszany Ghetto, the Kauna Ghetto, Kaisiadorys and forests

Testimony of Ishak Soloduha, born in Olszany, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Olszany Ghetto, the Kauna Ghetto, Kaisiadorys and forests Financially secure family; life before the war; attends a Tarbut school; activities in Beitar youth movement. Restrictions on Jews; displays of antisemitism with the onset of the Soviet occupation, 1939; nationalisation of businesses; termination of Beitar activities; German occupation, 22 June 1941; deportation to the Olszany Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to the Kaunas Ghetto; deportation to Kaisiadorys; camp life and labor logging trees and forest work; escape to tforests and wanderings; life in hiding in the Blaszka Potaz forest; contact with the partisans; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Olszany; marriage, 1947; aliya to Israel onboard the ship "Theodor Herzl", 1959.