Testimony of Michael Felman Feldman Padan, born in Sarniki, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Sarniki, in hiding, in forests with the partisans, in Sverdlovsk, Poland and other places

Testimony of Michael Felman Feldman Padan, born in Sarniki, Poland, 1936, regarding his experiences in Sarniki, in hiding, in forests with the partisans, in Sverdlovsk, Poland and other places His childhood in his parents' home [in Sarniki] and in his grandparents' homes in Korzec. Red Army occupation of Sarniki, September 1939; life under Soviet rule; German Army occupation of Sarniki, June 1941; administration of Sarniki by Ukrainians Danilo and Ivan, June 1941; establishment of the Sarniki Ghetto on another street; kidnapping of his father; murder of his father with another 1,000 Jews in the Jewish cemetery, 08 August 1941; curfew; decree regarding wearing of armbands; collection of the Jews' gold by the gabbai, Meir Winter; rape of women; escape with his mother; they disguise themselves as Ukrainians; move to a mass grave in Sarny; move back to Sarniki; in hiding; his mother gives birth to a baby; murder threat, spring 1942; move to a Ukrainian family, to Stefa Buchnik; in hiding in a chicken coop with his grandmother and uncles, autumn 1942; execution of the town's Jews [Sarniki?] including his mother and siblings; in hiding in a hayloft with the family; receives food from the farmers; smuggled into a forest; life with the partisans including sleeping in pits; the Germans flee; wanderings, summer 1943; winter, 1943-1944; parachuting of weapons and food to the partisans by the Soviets; sleeps in villages; most of his family members were killed [murder of most of his family members?]; move to a kolkhoz in Sverdlovsk. Move back to Korzec; move to Poland, life in an orphanage; escape and legal aliya to Eretz Israel with help from the Jewish Brigade; move to Atlit; move to Kibbutz Ramat Rachel.