Testimony of Elisha Roshkin, born in 1936 in Zdzieciol, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Zdzieciol ghetto, in hiding in a bunker, and with the partisans in the forests until 1944

Life before the war; parents belong to the Hashomer Hatzair movement; German occupation ensues in June 1941; establishment of the ghetto; attempts to go into hiding with non-Jewish acquaintances; Aktion and murder of grandparents and sister in a killing trench; aunt escapes from the trench; building a bunker under the house for seventy people; father's relations with non-Jews and acquisition of weapons from them; father and uncles escape to the forests in March 1942; joining a Soviet partisan unit near the Niemen River; father murdered by a non-Jewsh villager; German manhunts in the forests; sustains a head injury by a German soldier; liberation and return to Zdzieciol in 1944; moving to Lodz; life in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, 1946–1947; legal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Providence in 1947; settles in Kibbutz Sarid.