Testimony of Moshe Feldman, born in 1932 in Rozan, Poland, about escaping to Russia and a labor camp in Siberia, 1940–1944

Childhood; antisemitism before the war; war breaks out in 1939; Germans arrive; Jewish townspeople evicted; physical abuse and murder of the town's ritual slaughterer; reaching Maków Mazowiecki; men inducted for forced labor and murdered; escaping from the city; hiding out during the day; walking at night toward the Soviet border; bribing the Polish border guards; reaching Białystok; lack of solidarity on the part of the Jewish townspeople; grandmother dies; unsuccessful attempts to trace father, who remained in Warsaw; refugees deported to Siberia: a month and a half of travel by rail; many die; cases of suicide; a camp of shacks in the heart of the Siberian forest; felling trees in return for bread crumbs; bartering clothing for food; mother dies; liberation in 1944; relocating to a kolkhoz (Soviet collective farm) on the Russia-Ukraine border; living conditions improve; back to Poland in 1945; moving to a displaced persons camp in Austria; immigration to Israel in 1949; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Israel.