Testimony of Arie Leibish Zilberman, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan, in Siberia and Tashkent

Testimony of Arie Leibish Zilberman, born in Rymanow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan, in Siberia and Tashkent From an Orthodox family of merchants; Hebrew Zionist education; Bnei Akiva activities. Outbreak of the war; air-raids on Rymanow; deportation of the Jews to the Soviet Union; work in a kolkhoz in Uzbekistan; deportation to Siberia; hewing lumber and digging trenches; cold and hunger; escape to Tashkent; agricultural work; deaths of his parents from starvation and illness; end of the war. Return to Krakow, Poland; preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel; learning Hebrew and the history of the Jewish population in Eretz Israel prior to establishment of the State; aliya to Israel, 1949.