Testimony of Yaakov Zvi Yitzhak Rozenbaum Goldman, born in Falenica, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Miedzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto, Lukow Ghetto, Radzyn Podlaski and other places

Testimony of Yaakov Zvi Yitzhak Rozenbaum Goldman, born in Falenica, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in the Warsaw Ghetto, Miedzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto, Lukow Ghetto, Radzyn Podlaski and other places Life before the war; well-to-do family; his father's work as a bank manager and editor of a fashion journal; death of the witness' mother; his father's remarriage; move to Warsaw, 1937; life in Warsaw including his father's activities as a representative of the JDC organization in Warsaw. Warsaw Ghetto life including involvement in mutual help between Jews; death of Jews due to hunger; his father's request for him to escape; escape to outside the ghetto, 1942; escape and search for a forest; collects vegetables in fields; steals food in villages; work on farms and in forests, for food; escape to Radzyn Podlaski; life in Radzyn Podlaski including receiving food from Jewish families; transfer of food to inmates in a prison; abuse with the help of dogs by the Gestapo commander named Dykow; transfer of the witness to Radzyn; transfer to a prison; judgment and death sentence for the crime of escaping from Warsaw, December 1943; escape to the Miedzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto with help from a Jewish acquaintance; escape before the liquidation of the ghetto; escape to the Lukow Ghetto; Lukow Ghetto life in an empty home; liquidation of the ghetto, and his escape; escape to Wohyn; life in Wohyn including hospitalization in a hospital due to typhus disease; escape; camp life in Suchowola including running over of Jews by German riders; escape to forests in the Lublin area; makes friends with a non-Jewish youth; life in the non-Jewish youth's home; burning of homes and people by partisans; his non-Jewish friend asks the witness about his identity; life in Wola Niechcicka including using a false identity and working on a farm; liberation by the Red Army; liberation of Majdanek camp with the Red Army, 1944. Move to Krakow; life in Krakow including joining Zionist aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.