Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR

Testimony of Joseph Schlesinger, born in Rozan, Poland, 1935, regarding the murder of Rozan Jews and escape to the USSR Family background, Orthodox family. The outbreak of war; entry of German soldiers into the town, September 1939; deportation from homes; the concentration of Jews in the synagogue courtyard; setting the synagogue on fire; shooting at fugitives; hiding the witness and his family in the forest; transfer to the Makow Mazowiecki ghetto; assistance of a German officer in escaping from the ghetto; escape towards the Russian border; crossing the Bug River in a boat; arrival in the city of Vologda; deportation of his father to a Soviet camp; his mother's work in the factory; hunger. Liberation of his father with the German invasion, 1941; move to Kyrgyzstan; his father's ties with the police chief; his actions to rescue Jews from camps in preparation for repatriation; return to Poland; stay in a children's home of Bnei Akiva; aliya to Eretz Israel 1947; absorption and acclimatization.