Testimony of Yaakov Jasha Brenshtein, born in Rowne, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Dnepropetnousl and Zatonskoye

Testimony of Yaakov Jasha Bernstein, born in Rowne, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Dnepropetnousl and Zatonskoye Zionist secular family; his father is a technical advisor to factories and the principal of an ORT school in Brzesc Nad Bugiem; his father was a member of Hehalutz Hatzair movement; move of the family to Ozierany. Escape with his mother and brothers in the direction of Kiev, 1940; capture of his father and his murder in Ozierany; life with his mother and brothers in Dnepropetnousl; death of his brother from illness; life in Zatonskoye until 1946; end of the war. Move with his mother to Reichenbach; receives immediate help from the JDC; attends a "heder" and a Jewish school; joins Gordonia youth movement and the Polish Scouts; pogroms in Reichenbach, 1950; move to Venice; aliya to Israel onboard the ship "Galilah".