Testimony of Mordekhai Teitelbaum born in 1927 in Ostrołęka, Poland, about his experiences in Ostrołęka, escape to the Soviet Union, to Lomzha, and evacuation to Gryazi and the Kemerovo area

Childhood in Ostrołęka; community life; attending synagogue on Sabbaths; attending a Jewish elementary school; father dies in 1935; war with Germany breaks out in September 1939; family escapes to Ostrów Mazowiecka; lives in a synagogue; German occupation ensues; German soldiers enter town; curfew; order to leave town and live elsewhere; back to Ostrołęka; escaping to the east; slipping into Belorussia, Soviet Union; reaching Lomzha; living in a synagogue; receiving Soviet citizenship; transport by rail to Russia via Belostok; reaching Gryazi; mother works in a factory; witness attends a Russian elementary school; the front closes in in 1941; brother inducted into the Red Army; evacuation by train via Kuybyshev and Novosibirsk to Kemerovo; moving from one kolkhoz (Soviet collective farm) to antoher in the area; farm labor; forest labor; war ends; back to Wrocław; the Ebensee displaced persons camp; a DP camp in the Regensburg vicinity; immigration to Israel aboard the Atzmaut in early 1949.