Testimony of Gershon Nest, born in Warsaw, 1922, regarding his experiences escaping to east Poland, Janowska labor camp and as a POW in Russia
Family life before the occupation and attending a Jewish school.
Escape to the east with the outbreak of the war and life in Lublin; detention in a church; escape to his uncle's house in Zlloczow via Lvov; mobilization order from the Red Army; pogrom and murder of his uncle; forced to wear a yellow badge and distress from hunger; rescue from "Aktions"; buying a birth certificate from a non-Jew and living under a false identity; life in Janowska labor camp and...