Testimony of Alter Engelman, born in Radzyn, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Radzyn, Brześć nad Bugiem, Borisov, the Minsk Ghetto and other places

Testimony of Alter Engelman, born in Radzyn, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Radzyn, Brześć nad Bugiem, Borisov, the Minsk Ghetto and other places Life in Radzyn in an Orthodox religious family, including attending a Polish school; displays of antisemitism; activities in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. German Army occupation of Radzyn, September 1939; makes contact with a Wehrmacht (German Army) soldier; life under German occupation including the looting of Jewish shops; escape; move via the Bug River to Brześć nad Bugiem, October 1939; coordination of labor for the refugees by the Red Army; labor in the construction of a highway in Moskva Minsk [?]; escape to Borisov; life in Borisov including work in a factory for furniture construction; German Army occupation of Borisov, June 1941; escape to a kolkhoz in the east, on the border of Afghanistan; draft to forced labor in the Belorussia area; move to the Minsk Ghetto, autumn 1942; forced labor repairing roads, including the attitude of the Polish supervisors; Red Army occupation [of Minsk?]. Move to Tashkent; aliya to Israel following the Gomulka agreements, 1960; life in Israel.