Testimony of Joseph Rakoch, born in Sokolow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sokolow, Lwow, the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in Radosc and other places

Testimony of Joseph Rakoch, born in Sokolow, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Sokolow, Lwow, the Radom Ghetto, in hiding in Radosc and other places Life before the war; Zionist family; plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel; meets deportees from Germany and help to the deportees; death of his father. Outbreak of the war; escape East; shelling; escape back to Poland; escape of his mother to Radom; escape to Vilna; escape to Lwow; life on a Bnei Akiva kibbutz; the kibbutz receives help from the JDC and the Jewish Agency; Soviet occupation; deportations to Siberia; arrest of Jews due to Zionist activities; detention and transfer to forced labor; German occupation, 1941; murder of inmates in prison; receives help from his mother in Radom; escape to the Radom Ghetto; ghetto life; labor in a weapons factory; "Aktions"; liquidation of the small ghetto; escape from the ghetto with forced documents; in hiding in a shack in Radosc; informed on and escape to another hiding place; outbreak of the Warsaw Polish Uprising; escape. Move to France; aliya to Israel, 1950.