Testimony of Eliahu Zikher, born in 1931 in Dubeczno, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Włodawa ghetto, forests in the Lublin area, with a peasant, etc., during the war, and in children's homes after the war

Life before the war; offspring of a traditional affluent family; active in the Betar movement; attends a Polish school and a cheder at the same time; German occupation ensues; children's Aktion and rescue by mother; deportation to the Włodawa ghetto; Aktion; mother murdred; escapes ith father and sister to the Hadampol camp (an open camp); Aktion the camp and escape to nearby forests; father murdered by Poles; lives in forests near Lublin for two and a half years; difficulty in joining groups in the forests as children; works as a shepherd for a peasant on Zahajki; liberation and return to Dubeczno; joins the Dror movement and a "kibbutz" in Waldenburg (children and adults); children placed in a children's home in Biauwa; eight months later: slipping into Slovakia and thence to Markt Indersdorf; life in an orphanage in 1946; Hebrew studies; the children run the home; leaves the children's home in covered trucks bound for Lyons and illegal immigration to Eretz Israel from Marseilles aboard the Theodor Herzl; deportation to Cyprus; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.