Testimony of Tuvia Bromberg, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans

Testimony of Tuvia Bromberg, born in Vilna, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto and with the partisans Son of grain merchants; large family; education in the Hebrew school “Toshia”. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, 1939; exile of capitalists to the Soviet Union; blood libels against the Jews; anti-Jewish legislation; closure of his father's business; restrictions on Jews; deportation to the Vilna Ghetto, late July 1941; ghetto life; escape to former Polish Army barracks; labor in a German Army weapons factory; smuggles gun parts to the partisans; deportation of Jews by the Jewish police, April 1943; labor digging in the ghetto; murder of relatives apart from one sister; escape to the partisans, July 1943; life using a false identity; underground activities blowing up trains and train tracks; in hiding in forests; liberation by the Red Army, June 1944. Drafted into the army; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1957.