Testimony of Idel Yehuda Uchitel, born in 1916 in Zgurita, Romania, about his experiences in Zgurita, in the Kopaygorod ghetto, and with the partisans

Offspring of a religious Zionist family; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; the German–Soviet war breaks out in 1941; witness escapes in the direction of Ukraine; circulates among villages in the area; arrested and deported to the Kopaygorod ghetto; life in the ghetto under dire conditions; working for a local peasant; escape with a friend to the forests; joins the partisans; the Germans close in and the witness retreats as far as Fergana; works in a textile plant; marries in a local synagogue; m...