Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences as a POW in Minsk, Wlodowa, in the underground in Sobibor, forests and with the Red Army

Testimony of Semyon Rozenfeld, born in Ternovka, Ukraine, 1922, regarding his experiences as a POW in Minsk, Wlodowa, in the underground in Sobibor, forests and with the Red Army Family with hardships; witness attends a Jewish school until 1936; construction of a synagogue and help to families with hardships by American Jews. Detention of Jews; draft into the Red Army and training in the armored corps in Kiev, 1940; wounded in battle with the German Army; taken captive, 22 July 1941; life as a POW including hunger and temporary blindness; transfer to a warehouse; receives help from a German officer; deportation to Minsk, September 1941; life in a POW camp including injury by the Lithuanians; death of POWs from starvation and disease; survival of 15 prisoners until January 1942; rescue from shooting with the help of a Jewish Kapo; underground activities including escape attempt; transfer to Wlodowa; camp life; life in Sobibor camp; rescue from murder because he pretends he is a glazier; labor as a glazier; underground activities in Sobibor; participation in an uprising and killing of SS men; life in a forest including air-raids; in hiding in Polish houses; joins the Red Army 312 division; life in the Red Army including tranfer within the army to Poznan; wounded in the right hand; combat in Berlin; life in Berlin; release from the Red Army. Return to the Soviet Union, November 1945; aliya to Israel, 1990.