Testimony of Sara (Khazanov) Kirchner, born in Iwaniki, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Iwaniki, Pinsk, in the Red Army, Gorki and other places

Testimony of Sara (Khazanov) Kirchner, born in Iwaniki, Poland, 1920, regarding her experiences in Iwaniki, Pinsk, in the Red Army, Gorki and other places Red Army occupation of Iwaniki, 1939; life under Soviet rule, 1940; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; her family's escape to Pinsk; her family's return; joins a group in preparation for an escape to the border of the Soviet Union; opening of a passage to the city of Lenin, 1941; evacuation of the witness [and others] by the retreating Red Army into territories of the Soviet Union; draft into the Red Army as a nurse in a field hospital; transfer to a military camp in Gorki; camp life including work, 1941; desertion from the Red Army while using a false identity. Escape from the Soviet Union to Pocking DP camp with her sister and family, 1945; camp life including work in the school, 1945; aliya to Israel, 1948.