Testimony of Baruch Goldfinger, born in Krynica, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Siberia, Berezniki, Bukhara and Krasnovishersk

Testimony of Baruch Goldfinger, born in Krynica, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in Siberia, Berezniki, Bukhara and Krasnovishersk Religious-Zionist family from a family of Bubover hasidim. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; move by train to Lwow; air-raids; his mother's injury; arrival to Sambor; help from the Jews; his mother's hospitalization; German occupation; Soviet occupation; death of his mother; move to Lwow; deportation by freight train to Berezniki, Ural; transfer to a camp for families in the forests of Siberia; move to Krasnovishersk; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; move to Bukhara; life with a Bukharan family; membership in a Marxist circle; activities in school as a cover for Zionist activities; work as a shoemaker. Receives Polish citizenship, 1946; return to Poland; move to Stettin; joins the Ichud-General Zionists movement; aliya training; illegally crosses the border to Slovakia and Austria; camp life in Ebensee, August 1946; life in a "kibbutz" in Leipheim DP camp; Zionist activities in Munich; aliya to Israel, 1951.