Testimony of Aharon Klepfer, born in 1930 in Zarnowiec, Poland, about his escape to the forests and hiding with Poles in 1942–1945

Childhood in a well-to-do Hasidic family; attending a cheder and a Polish school; antisemitic manifestations before the war; war breaks out; Germans arrive; anti-Jewish strictures; studies halted; business shut down; eviction from houses; men inducted; Aktion; murder; dispossession; burial of gold in the family's courtyard and depositing of furs with Polish friends; denunciation of Jews; abuse by members of the Hitlerjugend; Judenräte appointed and subsequently murdered; rumors about an additional Aktion; family escapes to the forest; builds a bunker; bunker discovered a Pole who informs on them to the Germans; father captured and escapes; mother murdered; hiding with a Pole under a pigsty for payment; hunger and fear of German patrols; Red Army forces approach; father dies (a month before the liberation); children return to Zarnowiec; escaping to Łódź and an Aliya Bet camp in 1947; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel; exiled to Cyprus; re-immigration and adjustment to life in Israel.