Benjamin Vinder

Testimony of Benjamin Vinder, born in Dratow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in hiding in Chelm, labor camps in the Soviet Union and with the Anders Army Merchant family; attends a Polish school; member of Gordonia youth movement and activities in Chelm, 1938; work in an oil factory. Soviet occupation, 1939; German occupation; life in hiding; escape to the Soviet Union; capture by the Red Army; escape to Brisk D Lita; life in Brisk D Lita including selling cigarettes and alcohol; escape to Poland; capture and detention by the Red Army; deportation to Kotlas; transfer to Kanash; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks; transfer to another labor camp; camp life including being a stable hand; drafted into Anders Army; army life including the negation of Jewish soldiers rights; transfer to Uzbekistan; life in Uzbekistan including work in a JDC orphanage; transfer to Samarkand; life in Samarkand including farm labor; liberation. Return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1948.