Testimony of Arie Chazan, born in Ciechanowiec, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Ciechanowiec Ghetto, hidden by a non-Jew in Zlotki-Przeczki and a non-Jew in Mieleszki

Testimony of Arie Chazan, born in Ciechanowiec, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in the Ciechanowiec Ghetto, hidden by a non-Jew in Zlotki-Przeczki and a non-Jew in Mieleszki From a large traditional family; witness's father is a grain merchant; learns in a "heder"; father is drafted into the Red Army; witness’ brother is active in Hechalutz; restrictions on and harassment of the Jews; displays of antisemitism. German shelling, 1940; marking of houses; yellow badge; murder of Jews who are Communists; deportation of the family to the Ciechanowiec Ghetto without his father; ghetto life including smuggling food and writing poems; religious services on Yom Kippur; murder of his brother; escape to a Christian cemetery, 1942; hidden by Sapkovsky, a childless non-Jew in Zlotki-Przeczki; move to Mieleszki; hidden by Byaly, a non-Jew; leaves Byaly, July 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Ciechanowiec; move to Bialystok; life in Lodz; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; starts a family; reunion with Jadwiga, his rescuer's daughter in Israel.