Testimony of Baruch Holtzman, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Stettin and Israel

Testimony of Baruch Holtzman, born in Wyszkow, Poland, 1933, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Stettin and Israel His childhood in a Revisionist, traditional family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Bialystok; his father opens a soup kitchen; Zionist activities; detentions; transfer to a labor camp in Siberia; camp life for 14 months; transfer to Kazakhstan; transfer to a kolkhoz; attends a Soviet and Polish school; establishment of a clubhouse for young people; Zionist activities; end of the war. Move back to Stettin, Poland; antisemitism; activities in a Hashomer Hatzair "kibbutz"; aliya to Israel, 1949; life in Israel.