Testimony of Shlomo Shtirmer, born in Slawatyce, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Slawatycze, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopil camp and with the partisans in a forest

Testimony of Shlomo Shtirmer, born in Slawatyce, Poland, 1909, regarding his experiences in Slawatycze, the Berezne Ghetto, Kostopil camp and with the partisans in a forest Life before the war; religious family with hardships; attends a "heder"; drafted to the Polish Army, 1930; Communist movement activities. Soviet occupation, September 1939; retreat of the Red Army beyond the Bug river; joins together with his family those who retreat; German occupation; escape of the family to Poland; remains with his wife in Berezne; German occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews including yellow badge; restrictions on movement and other; deportation to the Berezne Ghetto; ghetto life; "Aktion" and deportation to Kostopol; camp life; receives information on the murder of Jews in the Berezne Ghetto including his wife and daughter; escape with two friends to a forest; life in the forest including joining the partisans; contracts typhus; liberation by the Red Army. Work in the Soviet Union; return to Poland, 1945; move to Germany, 1945; aliya to Israel, 1949.