Testimony of Yona Goldes Zahavi, born in Mielnica, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Korolowka Ghetto, the Borszczow Ghetto, in the forest and in hiding

Testimony of Yona Goldes Zahavi, born in Mielnica, Poland, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Korolowka Ghetto, the Borszczow Ghetto, in the forest and in hiding Family background. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life under Soviet occupation; German occupation, 1941; concentration of the residents in the city square; escape from the "Aktion" with his mother; arrest and deportation to the Korolowka Ghetto; transfer to the Borszczow Ghetto; escape to the forest; survival; murder of his mother by Ukrainians; in hiding in a bunker in the city; attitude of the local population; liberation by the Red Army. Murder in an orphanage in Cernauti; joins Youth Aliyah; life in the Leipheim DP camp and the Landsberg DP camp; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Champollion", 1946; kibbutz life.