Testimony of Yechiel Gitelman, born in Trojanowka, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Trojanowka, the Liszniowka forests, partisans camps, Maniewicze, Rowne and other places

Testimony of Yechiel Gitelman, born in Trojanowka, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in Trojanowka, the Liszniowka forests, partisans camps, Maniewicze, Rowne and other places Life under Soviet rule, 1939; German Army occupation [of Trojanowka?], 1941; his family members hide during an "Aktion"; escape of his family members to forests, 1941; life in the Liszniowka forests with his family members, 1941; murder of his mother, grandfather and grandmother by local Ukrainians, 1943; move to a families camp in a forest with his father and sister; his father joins the Soviet partisans; life in the partisans camp, 1943; liberation by the Red Army; move back to the Maniewiecze area; draft of his father into the Red Army; his father is killed in action at the front, 1944; placed by the Soviets in an orphanage in Rowne with his sister, 1945. Move to [the home of] a Jewish couple in Rowne, 1945; move to Beuthen, 1945; move to a DP camp in the Landsberg area; move to a monastery in St. Ottilien, Germany; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Czechoslovakia and France, 1946; detention in Cyprus in the summer camp, 1946; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; life in Israel.