Testimony of Shlomo Katz, born in Dzwiniacz Gorny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Malynsk, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopol camp and with the partisans in the area

Testimony of Shlomo Katz, born in Dzwiniacz Gorny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Malynsk, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopol camp and with the partisans in the area Childhood in Dzwiniacz Gorny; move to Turka, 1933; work as a teacher of Jewish children in the villages in the area until 1937. German occupation, 1939; escape to Tarnawa Nizna; evacuation of residents of the area by the Red Army, March 1940; move to Malynsk; German occupation, June 1941; labor repairing railroad lines; confiscation of property; deportation to the Berezne Ghetto, summer 1942; deportation of the men to Kostopol labor camp; labor loading logs onto railroad cars; camp surrounded with the intention of murdering the inmates, autumn 1942; uprising by the inmates, most of whom escape; in hiding and works for non-Jews in the area over the course of six months; in hiding in the forests in the Malynsk area; joins a family camp in the forest; joins a Soviet partisans unit in the Zhitomir area; participation in the demolition of bridges and attacks on German bases; conquest of Kostopol and Berezne; advance towards the Bilgoraz forests. Release from the partisan unit, May 1945; return to Krakow with his family; murder of Jews by Poles; aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1946.