Mike R. Holocaust testimony (HVT-659) interviewed by Sondra Kraff and Elizabeth Jacob,

Videotape testimony of Mike R., who was born in Pogost-Zagorodskiy, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1925. He recalls that his family was the wealthiest one in town; Soviet occupation in 1939; studying Russian in school; deportation with his family to Siberia in 1941 as capitalists; harsh conditions during the one-month train journey; incarceration in a primitive labor camp; their transfer five and a half months later to Asia; obtaining more food because there was more vegetation; enlisting in the Soviet military when he was eighteen; serving on the frontline in Poland; being hidden by Poles when his unit was surrounded by Germans; being wounded in action; recovering in a military hospital in Lʹviv; learning his family was in Ukraine and that all their relatives had been killed in their hometown; joining his family; traveling with them to Poland, then illegally to Germany; working for the Joint; and their emigration to the United States.