Testimony of Icchak Lewin, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Nowogrodek, the Dworzec Ghetto, as a partisan and more

Testimony of Icchak Lewin, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Nowogrodek, the Dworzec Ghetto, as a partisan and more 

Testimony of Icchak Lewin, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Nowogrodek, the Dworzec Ghetto, as a partisan and more 

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Testimony of Icchak Lewin, born in Nowogrodek, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Nowogrodek, the Dworzec Ghetto, as a partisan and more Labor in a camp in Tiktin at the outbreak of the war; escape to Bialystok; transfer to Nowogrodek, 10 July 1941; murder of approximately 80 Jews in the market place in Nowogrodek; names of some of those murdered; first"Aktio", 07 December 1941; participation of Judenrat members in carrying out the selection; deportation of Jews unfit for work to their deaths; establishment of the Nowogrodek Ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police in the ghetto; forced labor outside the ghetto; deportation of the Jews of Lubacz to Nowogrodek, May 1942; preparations by a group of young people and their escape to the forests; deaths of members of the group in combat with the Germans in Naliwki;"Aktio" in the ghetto, 07 August 1942; participation of the Jewish police in carrying out the"Aktio"; leaving approximately 800 professionally skilled Jews in work places in the ghetto; escape from Nowogrodek to the Dworzec Ghetto; transfer to the Lipichanski forests; arrival of most of the partisans from Zetl; hunt for the partisans by the Germans; attitude of the Polish population towards the Jews; joining a Jewish partisan regiment led by the Bielski brothers; rescue of approximately 1,500 Jews from the Nowogrodek Ghetto and from Lida by the Bielski brothers; joining of approximately 150 Jewish partisans to the"Khiro" Soviet partisan regiment, spring 1943; survival; liberation, 20 July 1944.