Testimony of Dov Bruno Liberfroind, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bielsko, Katowice, Nisko, the Rawa Ruska forests, Lwow and other places

Testimony of Dov Bruno Liberfroind, born in Bielsko, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Bielsko, Katowice, Nisko, the Rawa Ruska forests, Lwow and other places His childhood in a traditional family; activities in the Akiva Zionist youth movement; displays of antisemitism before the war; death of his father, 1938. German Army occupation of Bielsko, 01 September 1939; escape; wanderings; return home, approximately three weeks later; deportation to Katowice; transfer to Nisko, October 1939; gunshots in the direction of the deported Jews; escape to the Rawa Ruska forests, under Soviet control; meets Soviet soldiers; move to Lwow; last correspondence with his family members who [later] perished; life in Lwow, for approximately one year; transfer to Siberia, late 1942; life in Siberia including forced labor for 14 months; liberation; move to Kutaisi; end of the war, May 1945. Move back to Poland; joins a Zionist movement; illegally crosses borders to France; aliya to Israel, August 1948.