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One day in the fall of 1943, I and my friend
Dvoyre Lifshits, together with another Jewish
youth, Mordche Meiterman (who lives now in
the United States), found ourselves in the village
of Zgoran. Someone there told us that in the
surrounding area there were remnants of a Russian
partisan group whose unit had been destroyed
by the enemy. These remnants wanted to
join another partisan group to continue the fight,
but they did not know the area.
When we heard this, we consented to bring
them to the village of Krushnits to a family of
farmers that had connections with the partisans
in the neighboring woods. We succeeded in reaching
the desired place in the village and were forced
to remain with this family for a day until we could
return to Zgoran.
This farmer's son was a known Communist,
and the Ukrainian nationalists, who had cooperated
with the Nazis, had been planning for a long
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time to kill him. The son was hiding in a bunker he
had dug out by himself under the barn. We went
into hiding in this bunker by digging ourselves in
among the sheaves of wheat. Just then they
searched the barn for the son.
They found there a pot of food that had not yet
had a chance to cool off, as well as three spoons.
From this they surmised there mustbe three people
hiding there and they began to search thoroughly,
poking with the points of their bayonets into the
sheaves.
When their search bore no fruit, they decided
to set fire to the barn.
Meanwhile the farmer's wife, in fear for the
lives of her son and us, ran for help into the
nearby woods, where her husband was then
with the partisan group. She called them to our
assistance. The partisans succeeded in driving
away the oppressors, and thus our lives were
saved.