Testimony of Yosef Ehrlich, born in Lesko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lesko and Kazakhstan

Testimony of Yosef Ehrlich, born in Lesko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lesko and Kazakhstan Life before the war; displays of antisemitism; getting organized for self-protection. Outbreak of the war; escape to the area occupied by the Soviet Union; life in a synagogue in the Soviet occupied area; detention of his father; deportation to Kazakhstan with his family; life in Kazakhstan including labor logging trees; knowledge of the murder of Jews in Lesko; life in Kazakhstan in a kolkhoz including agricultural labor; draft attempt to a Polish division within the Red Army, 1943; refusal to be drafted and arrest. Move to Krakow; life on an aliya training facility; life in DP camps in Germany; support from UNRRA; aliya to Israel, 1948.