Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps

Testimony of Edmund Dikman, born in Bukaczowce (Bukachivtsi), Poland, in 1929, regarding his ‎experiences in the Bukaczowce and Rohatyn ghettos and in Lawrykowce, Rohatyn and other ‎camps Life before the war; move of his family to Lukowicze in 1930; childhood in the village; studies at a ‎Polish school and with a “melamed;” antisemitism; Soviet occupation in 1939; escape to a ‎boarding school in Lwow in 1940; occupation by the Germans; escape to Lukowicze; payment of ‎ransom by the Bukaczowce Judenrat in money and furs; deportation to Bukaczowce in 1942; life in ‎the ghetto; deportation to Bronislawowka; life in the camp; forced labor; beatings; starvation; ‎two unsuccessful escape attempts; transfer to Lawrykowce; life in the camp; labor in a quarry; life ‎in Rohatyn camp; more labor in a quarry; escape to his father in Piaski; false papers; life in the ‎Rohatyn ghetto; meeting his parents; escape to Dzieszkow; work for an antisemitic Ukrainian ‎farmer in 1942–1943; activities of the Ukrainian farmer to organize a partisan unit; the Germans ‎search for the Ukrainian; flight together with the Ukrainian’s pregnant wife to Okno in April 1944; ‎liberation by the Red Army; arrest and accusation of belonging to the radical wing of the ‎Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists led by Stepan Bandera; release by the Ukrainian’s wife; ‎move to Lublin as part of repatriation; reunion with his father; rehabilitation; aliya to Israel in April ‎‎1957; absorption.‎