My mission was to bring the people to Slovakia myself.
Unfortunately, it was impossible for us to deliver several people.
Haganah actually started out as a search.
Our first courier from the General Government to us, to the annexed territories, was Eliezer Geller.
Thanks to Eliezer Geller, we knew the path to the General Government.
We knew who to connect with and a few of us took advantage of this path
to establish contacts with the General Government.
Eliezer said we must try to save people in all ways possible,
take them out of the ghetto, hide them, take them away, do everything possible to save them.
Many will surely kill the Germans because we have no way of helping them.
Those of us who still remain will have the few guns we have with them,
will try to die with honor.
The first major resettlement operation in 1942 led to our first resistance.
The population was called upon to gather on a football field,
and everyone's papers were to be checked there.
We didn't trust the peace.
We decided to print leaflets, we did this, and distributed the leaflets to every house in the ghetto.
In the leaflets, we wrote what we knew about Auschwitz,
that whoever comes to Auschwitz will not come back alive.
We called on people not to go to the football field because, in our opinion,
a large part of those gathered there would never return.
Thereupon...
The Jewish Council decided to hold a meeting at the cinema.
Members of the Jewish Council spoke at this meeting
and accused us of interfering with their work.
And one claimed that we were stabbing him in the back and we were endangering people.
He also wanted to meet Monik Mären.
He was the chairman of the group.
To convince him that he should give us help and also give money to help with the investigation.
It was obvious that Monik Mären did not agree in any case.
There was also a meeting with Ben Manielewitsch and Monik Mären.
It was a meeting in a coffee house near Moskovska.
It was a coffee house, a pastry shop.
That's where we met.
Now that Monik Mären had nothing more to do,
his visit also prompted us
to organize efforts to get the weapons for Monik Mären.
Then we also brought in our man to get more weapons.
A day later Leon came from the embassy
and brought us a Mauser and another Mauser from Belgium.
I got the Mauser and we had to train with weapons.
After we trained, I saw that the Mauser had not worked
because the weapon was broken.
I brought the Mauser with me and he repaired it.
After repairing it, we worked out a trick for us to use it, we found a place
and we trained with the Mauser.
There was also a big problem getting the bullets for the trick to work.
Apart from the weapons, it was also
Leon's job to get the bullets
to train and also to get the bullets
to train to learn how to use the weapon.
After that we sent a few more girls
to get weapons from the General Government.
We also sent Fredka.
In 1942, a sister of Bayuk Zelik’s,
who was our friend in Krakow,
came to us and she told us
that there is the possibility
of sending the girls to work as Polish students in
Germany.
She was also traveling to Germany
and she also had the opportunity
to send even more girls to Germany.
She also had the opportunity
to send the girls to Germany.
Then we sent Fredka Ochsenhandler,
who was a really great woman,
she was blonde and she also spoke Polish very well,
with four girls to Sikorowa
to try to achieve that.
We didn’t dare to approach anyone
to offer them money for weapons.
That's why I went to Czestochowa at the beginning of 1943.
The General Government was there.
There was still a group of Jews there,
the remaining group from the Czestochowa ghetto.
I went into the ghetto.
And tried to talk about the Jews who still lived there, party members, our party members who also still lived there,
to get addresses where I could possibly buy weapons.
That didn't work, they had no idea.
They claimed that everything was just as hostile there as it was for us.
On the way back, where I went back home with the same smuggler,
and since I knew I would never be with him again,
I asked him about weapons and he said he would try to get some and that I should
stay with him for a day.
So I thought it wasn't too big a risk and stayed with him.
The gentleman was Pierzuch.
And the next day he came and actually brought a revolver that cost about 1000 marks
and brought me back across the border.
We came to the station, which was already on Reich territory, and it was called Poraj.
He left me there.
And I had a ticket to go back.
However, there were occasional checks at the station.
And on that day, I experienced such a check.
I was stopped and asked for my ID. I showed my ID and he said, open your little sack.
And there were a lot of smelly socks in the little sack.
And then he said, close it, it's okay.
And this is how I brought the first revolver to us. There was immense joy.
Then I went over again.
No longer with Mr. Pierzuch, I illegally crossed the border alone instead.
And I already knew how to do it. I went to Poraj, which was the place right on the outskirts of the town Czestochowa.
But we were allowed to drive up till there because it was still Reich territory.
And from there, I crossed the border illegally that he had once taken me across.
And I surprised him and said, yes, here I am, tell me if we can do it again.
And then I got a revolver and several hand grenades from him.
And luckily, I brought them over again without being checked.
And that was our treasure, we didn't have any more weapons in Sosnowiec.
Soon the money ran out. Then the weapons were stolen from the German officer's houses.
Jakob Rosenberg and his comrade Harry Blumenfrucht broke into such houses several times.
Dr. Braun, who was an officer in the SA, lived in this house on the right.
We came from the ghetto, the three of us.
The first was Dietschka Spiegelmann, who was disguised as a BDM girl.
And me with Harry, disguised as plainclothes criminal police officers.
Harry Blumenfrucht, yes.
And she went to the door and rang the bell.
And his wife, who looked after him, lived in the whole house here,
and a woman, who was their servant, appeared at the window and asked what she wanted.
Then she replied, I have a letter for Dr. Braun.
She said my boss is at work now and he'll come later.
Then she said, please open up for me, I want to give you this letter.
And she came down, the door opened and then we went in
and we said we were from the criminal police
and we were told that people, Jews, were hidden there.
And she said that we needed to do a search.
Then she said, I won't allow anyone to search here without my boss.
And she answered the phone and then I ripped the phone out of her hand
and I cut it.
And Harry went inside so she wouldn't see him and looked for the gun.
He found two revolvers, which he took with him,
and I tied the woman to the door, facing the door
and she couldn't see or hear anyone.
I also stuffed her mouth with a handkerchief and then we disappeared.
We were back in the ghetto, but on the go.
On the way, Harry Blumelflucht was stopped by officers of the real criminal police in Bedzin,
the Schräder, and as he took out the revolver and wanted to shoot the Schräder,
a dog jumped on him, threw him on the ground and then they arrested him.
Two more police officers arrived and he was taken away to the criminal investigation department
and after being seriously injured, he kept quiet and did not admit anything
and he was killed here in Bedzin at the criminal police
and that was the end of this great hero, Harry Blumelflucht.
One day, Zvi Brandes came and told me to prepare myself to go into the forest to the partisans.
I was very pleased.
And after a few days, I went into the forest with nine comrades.
We left in the morning. We marched all day.
In the evening, we arrived in the Miechow area and took a ten-minute break.
Socha, who was supposed to lead us to the partisans, said he wanted to scout out the area.
He came back quickly.
Then we walked through the forest for a few hours again.
Then we took another break and Socha disappeared again to scan the area as we approached the Polish border.
We waited a long time. Suddenly we were shot at from all sides.
My nine comrades fell in just a few moments.
An ambush. Socha had handed over Isaac's group, as well as the first ten, to the Wehrmacht, who were combing the forests for partisans.
The Germans came closer. You could hear the screams of injured friends.
Nothing had happened to me, but I had thrown myself down and played dead.
A soldier lifted my foot with his foot and shouted, this man is finished too.
A few moments after he left, I jumped up and ran away.
The Germans shot at me from all sides. I ran until I came to a river.
I crossed it. I managed to run away and out of the forest and went along the tracks to Bedzin.
I arrived early in the morning.
When I came to the Kibbutz Gohorov house, I woke up my comrades.
They immediately noticed that something had happened.
People fainted.
Others banged their heads against the wall in despair.
A great lament.
I also fainted.
When I woke up again, I was lying near the Bochorow kibbutz community.
I was sent to the bunker of the Bochorow kibbutz community.