עדותו של מיכאל עסטריק (נער בן 21) על קורותיו בגטו Slonim, במסתור, בריחה מהוצאה להורג וב-Bialystok

Testimony of Mikhail Estrik (a 21-year old youth), regarding his experiences in the Slonim Ghetto, in hiding, his escape from his execution and in Bialystok 

Testimony of Mikhail Estrik (a 21-year old youth), regarding his experiences in the Slonim Ghetto, in hiding, his escape from his execution and in Bialystok 

Handwritten copy Typewritten copy 34 pages/frames 

Testimony of Mikhail Estrik (a 21-year old youth), regarding his experiences in the Slonim Ghetto, in hiding, his escape from his execution and in Bialystok Surrounding of the Slonim Ghetto by Germans, Belorussians, Lithuanians and Ukrainians; Jews in hiding in hiding places; burning of the quarter where the professionally skilled workers lived including spilling gasoline and throwing grenades; deaths of approximately 1,000 Jews in the fire or from smoke inhalation; search for Jews in hiding places; arrest of Jews; selection; deportation of Jews to forced labor; distribution of work permits to professionally skilled workers; discovery of the witness' hiding place; transfer with the other 17 people hiding there to the prison; transfer to the execution site by truck; overcoming the policemen with three other men; throwing ([the policemen?) from the moving truck; escape to the forest; murder of the Jews who remained in the trucks; transfer to the ghetto in Slonim where the professionally skilled workers with yellow certificates lived; deportation of Jews to a camp in Kozlowszczyzna; escape from the Slonim Ghetto to Bialystok; preparations for armed resistance in Slonim; resistance not carried out; escape of Jews to the forests;"Aktio" including the murder of Jews in Slonim, 09 August 1942 and 24 February 1943 (?); remaining of approximately 400 Jews with essential occupations, including two women, in Slonim.