Jewish Armed Resistance in the General Government Area of Poland

Born in Pinsk. Drafted to the army as physician in 1939, and later captured by the Germans. Due to knowledge of many languages, attached as physician for refugees in the front and later in refugee camp. Fleeing to Warsaw due to bad conditions in the, 1941. Getting job in Warsaw with help of some physician friends and working there until liquidation of little ghetto. Entire ghetto population including interviewee transported to Sobibor. Jumping train near Lublin forests and moving around in villages aided by former patients. Organization of partisans with communist orientation (the AL Armiya Ludowa) beginning at that time. Partisans' leader, Konstantyn Masterlarz, pleading him to join them as physician with no commitment to group's ideology. His code name in group "Znachor". Many Jews in those groups having code names and thus their Jewishness not known. Conflicts with gentiles arising despite that and thus attempts were made to establish seperate groups under Jewish command. Attempt to set up Jewish radio station called "The Jewish Voice".