Testimony of Iccak Stupnik, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Zambrow and the forests

Testimony of Iccak Stupnik, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Zambrow and the forests 

Testimony of Iccak Stupnik, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Zambrow and the forests 

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Testimony of Iccak Stupnik, born in Zambrow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Zambrow and the forests Jewish life in Zambrow before the outbreak of the war. Occupation of Zambrow by the German Army, 25 June 1941; life under the occupation including anti-Jewish legislation and abuse of the Jews;"Aktio", July 1941; selection; murder of 800 Jews, mostly youth, 15 Kilometers from Zambrow; establishment of the Zambrow Ghetto; attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews; murder of 300 elderly Jews, women and men; sorting of the Jewish population in the ghetto into the privileged and the forced laborers; Judenrat members, Jewish policemen and the well-to-do are the privileged; the rest of the Jews are forced laborers including working at paving roads;"Aktio", 02 November 1941; deportation of the Jews of Zambrow including Jews from neighboring villages to a camp one kilometer's distance from Zambrow; camp life including abuse, hunger, cold and morbidity; criminal activities of Bloch, the Polish commandant of the camp, including murder of Jews; collaboration of Gliksman, the Jew from Lodz, with the Germans; liquidation of the camp, 19 January 1943; escape to the forests; joining the partisans; survival as a partisan.