Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural

Testimony of Yeshayahu Yehiel Harsit (Porcelana), born in Warsaw, Poland in 1934, regarding ‎his experiences escaping to the Soviet Union and deportation to Ural His family before the war; antisemitism; German occupation in September 1939; escape to the ‎Russian occupied zone; life in Baranowicze; deportation to Ural at the beginning of 1940; his ‎experiences in a Soviet work camp; his parents’ work; studies; religious life; release from the camp ‎in summer 1941; transfer to Kazakhstan; starvation; daily struggle to survive; antisemitism; ‎transfer to Turkestan in spring 1942; life in Turkestan; antisemitism; end of the war in May 1942; ‎return to Poland; illegal border crossing as part of Aliya Bet; illegal attempt to make aliya to Eretz ‎Israel on the ship Exodus in 1947; deportation to Europe; life in DP camps; second aliya to Israel in ‎‎1948; absorption; service in the Israeli air force. ‎