Testimony of Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding in the home of a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom

Testimony of Yisrael Shpira, born in Radomsko, Poland in 1936, regarding his experiences as a young boy in Radomsko, his hiding with a Polish family in Warsaw and in Radom Life before the war; he was born into a well -to-do secular family; outbreak of the war in 1939; obtaining forged papers; escape with his family to Warsaw; arrest by the Germans and transfer to the "Pawiak" prison under a fake non-Jewish identity; release after a short while; escape and hiding in the home of a respected Polish family; life in the family until the " Polish uprising" in August 1944; bombings; deportation with all the residents of the city; escape to Radom; liberation by the red army; transfer by a Jewish organization; transfer with a Jewish family to Italy; aliya to Israel in 1945; absorption in boarding schools of the Mizrachi movement until the army recruitment; developing a career in folk dance, art and culture