Testimony of Natan Nuta Mager, born in Chelm, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Chelm, Kuibyshev and Tashino

Testimony of Natan Nuta Mager, born in Chelm, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Chelm, Kuibyshev and Tashino Life before the war; traditional family; attends a state school; attends a Tarbut school; displays of antisemitism, 1934-1935. Outbreak of the war, 1939; riots by Ukrainians; Soviet occupation; German occupation; murder of Jewish men; robbery of valuables; escape of his father to the Soviet Union; wears an armband; escape with his mother and baby brother with the help of a female smuggler sent by his father, 1941; life in the home of the female smuggler; illegally crosses the border and detention by Soviet soldiers; release and meets his father; escape to Kuibyshev; life in Kuibyshev; relations with the local population; move to Tashino, 1942; life in an "international" kolkhoz; draft of his father into the Red Army; end of the war, 1945. Aliya to Israel, 1957.