Testimony of Arie Truszinski, born in Osowa Wyszka, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Osowa Wyszka, forests, in hiding and with the partisans

Testimony of Arie Truszinski, born in Osowa Wyszka, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Osowa Wyszka, forests, in hiding and with the partisans Childhood in a well-to-do family; attendance at the Tarbut high school in Stepan. Life under Soviet rule, 1939; threat of deportation to Siberia; occupation [of Osowa Wyszka] by the German Army, 1941; deportation of youth to forced labor; rumors of murder [of Jews] in pits; escape of the family to a forest; hunt for the family; murder of his father and his brother on leaving the forest; hunt for the family; murder of his mother and two siblings; being hidden by a non-Jew; joining a Soviet otriad [partisan unit]; demolition of railroad tracks in Belorussia; liberation, 1944. Move to Poland, 1945; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Hannah Szenes", 1945; life in Kibbutz Yagur.