Testimony of Jakob Glazer, born in Belz, Poland in 1938, regarding his experiences in Belz, Stettin and Kazakhstan

Testimony of Jakob Glazer, born in Belz, Poland in 1938, regarding his experiences in Belz, Stettin and Kazakhstan Life before the war; his parent's work; his father's illness, hospitalization and death; German occupation; burning of the synagogue; escape to Stettin; move to Kazakhstan by a person who later was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; separation from his mother; deportation of his mother and siblings to Auschwitz; murder of his siblings in Auschwitz, and his mother's survival; life in Kazakhstan including disease and hunger; end of the war; Return to Poland; reunion with his mother in Stettin; he learns in a heder and attends a public school; displays of antisemitism; foot injury; hospitalization in a hospital; incident regarding the smuggle of the Belzer Rebbe to Eretz Israel; Rebbe's stay in the Krakow Ghetto and the Bochnia Ghetto; move of the Rebbe to Hungary and from there to Israel; Zionist youth movements in Belz during the period of the Belzer Rebbe; help to other people by the witness' mother; aliya to Israel, 1950; attends school in Kfar Chabad; his Bar Mitzvah celebration; marriage, 1961; he starts a family.