Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union

Testimony of Arie Leibel Stotzki, born in Bielica, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Bielica, the Zetel Ghetto and with the partisans in a forest in the Soviet Union Life before the war; family owns a workshop; attends a Tarbut school. Soviet occupation; ban on Jewish religious observance; drafted to the Red Army; German occupation, 1941; abuse of Jews; "Aktions"; murder of Jews; informed on by Poles; burning of the place due to the nearby air field; escape and in hiding in a forest; escape to the Zetel Ghetto; ghetto life; dismantling of Soviet equipment; murder of Jews; mass grave in a forest; rescue of 44 work shops; escape to the Soviet Union; meets Soviet and Jewish partisans; life with the partisans; acts of revenge against Germans; destruction of bridges; murder of Ukrainian collaborators; life in a bunker with his sister. Joins Beitar; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship "Enzo Sereni", 1946.