Testimony of Pinchas Pinchik Boldo, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Nowogrodek Ghetto, the family camp of the Bielski brothers in the Lida forests, Nowogrodek, Naliboki and other places

Testimony of Pinchas Pinchik Boldo, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Nowogrodek Ghetto, the family camp of the Bielski brothers in the Lida forests, Nowogrodek, Naliboki and other places Life before the war in Lubcza; Revisionist family; attends the Hebrew high school in Vilna. Soviet occupation; escape with the family to Nowogrodek, 1939; life in Nowogrodek; threats of exile; German occupation, 1941; murder of the community leaders in the plaza; ghetto borders are defined; ghetto life; labor in a sawmill; escape with the family to her mother's family in Izwa; life in Izwa; informed on by neighbors; detention of his parents in prison; contact with the Dzieciolowski and Bielski families; decision to escape to a forest with his brother, aunt, the Eshel brothers and Zusia Bielski; forest life; his eldest brother joins Tuvia Bielski; Tuvia Bielski wants to enlarge the group; family members escape the ghetto for the forest; life in the Lida forests, Nowogrodek and Nalibki as a partisan unit in the families camp; combat with hostile partisan units; participation in acts of revenge on villagers who were informers; participation in local activities against Germans; increase in the families camp to 1,200 people; forest life and cooperation with the locals; contact with the Soviet authorities; German soldiers are killed during their retreat; enlists in the Red Army with other men. Drafted to the NKVD; fear of deportation to Siberia; escape to western Poland; move to Foehrenwald DP camp; aliya to Israel, 1950.