Testimony of Herman Leber, born in 1925 in Podkamien, Poland, about his experiences in the Pokdamien ghetto and camp, a bunker in the forest, and in the ranks of the Red Army

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional Zionist merchant family; attends a Polish-Russian school, a Jewish school, and a cheder; active in the Bnei Akiva movement; receiving refugees from Poland after war breaks out; Soviet occupation ensues in June 1939; refugees deported to Russia; German occupation ensues in 1941; Germans collaborate with Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans); Jews deported to a ghetto out of town; men taken away for forced labor; 1,500 Jews ronded up in a synagogue that is ...