Testimony of Zvi Rozenbaum Ben Ami, born in Dobrogoszczyce, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side, Czestochowa, in a bunker in the Sokolniki forest and while hidden in the home of the mayor of Lelow

Testimony of Zvi Rozenbaum Ben Ami, born in Dobrogoszczyce, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding on the Aryan side, Czestochowa, in a bunker in the Sokolniki forest and while hidden in the home of the mayor of Lelow German occupation, September 1939; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including forced labor in exchange for food; Jewish police; smuggled to the Aryan side; hides in the cemetery during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; sneaks onto a passenger train, several days later; secret move to Czestochowa; wanderings in fields in the area; receives food from Polish villagers; meets Mr. Tomaszewski, a non-Jewish acquaintance of his father, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; move to the Sokolniki forest and hides in a bunker with his family; informed on by Poles; rescue from capture by Germans and Poles and from the murder of the remainder of the people hiding; escape to Lelow; life using a Polish identity including forced labor; hidden in the home of the mayor; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Life in Lelow using a Polish identity; exposure of his Jewish identity by a representative of the Gordonia movement, 1947; placed in a children's home in Lodz; difficulties in his return to Jewish life; escapes from the orphanage to Lelow; aliya to Israel, 1950.