Testimony of Binyamin Mordechai Karinski, born in Ostryna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Mogilev, Stalingrad, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony of Binyamin Mordechai Karinski, born in Ostryna, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Ostryna, Mogilev, Stalingrad, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other places His childhood in a traditional family, including attending a Tarbut school and a Polish school; learns metalworking in an ORT school in Grodno. Outbreak of the war; Red Army occupation of Ostryna; deportation of wealthy people to Siberia; German Army occupation of Ostryna, 1941; escape to the Soviet Union; his parents remain in Poland; murder of his parents; march of refugees; arrival to Mogilev; move to Stalingrad; move to Uzbekistan; draft to labor including labor laying railroad tracks to convey coal from the mines; transfer to Kazakhstan; life in Kazakhstan including hunger, morbidity and labor laying railroad tracks to convey weapons from the Americans to the Red Army; move back to Poland, 1944. Rumors concerning the existence of extermination camps; rumors concerning the Kielce pogrom; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; life in Israel.