Testimony of Ahron Adolf Bitter, born in Biala Bielsko, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Brody, Stryj, Siberia, Namangan and more

Testimony of Ahron Adolf Bitter, born in Biala Bielsko, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Brody, Stryj, Siberia, Namangan and more His childhood; good relations with the Poles. Pogrom; draft of his father to the Polish Army, summer 1939; transfer east to Brody and Stryj with his mother by train; deportation to Siberia; hard labor in the forests and factories; cold and hunger; arranging a strike and transfer to Ural; fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer to Uzbekistan; labor in an oil factory in Namangan; fostered by a Jewish family; end of the war. Return to Krakow, 1945; joins a Poalei Zion kibbutz; move to [DP] camps in Germany; move to Italy, 01 July 1948; aliya of the entire group to Israel; enlistment in the Palmach; combat in Jerusalem; enlistment in the IDF.