Testimony of Hillel Eidelman, born in Rakow, Poland, 1893, regarding his experiences in Rakow, Minsk and as a partisan Occupation of Rakow by the German Army, 27 June 1941; persecution and detention of Communists, Jews and Soviet Army POWs by the Polish gendarmie including Gribovski, Lukashevitz and Yachtevitz; arrest; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue compound; murder of Jews; deportation of the Jews who remained to a camp in Minsk by truck; camp life including hunger and thirst; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the camp, 30 June 1941; transfer of the inmates to another camp in the Minsk area; camp life including abuse of Jews, murder of members of the Jewish intelligentsia and separation of Jewish inmates from non-Jewish inmates; escape from the camp; move to Rakow, 10 July 1941; murder of Jews in Rakow; establishment of the Rakow Ghetto, 25 September 1941; ghetto life including crowding; billeting of 1,000 people in the four synagogues in Rakow; appointment of a Judenrat under Hirsch Rubinik; deportation of Jews for forced labor; period of service of Misha Mangoi as ghetto commander; "Aktion" by Lithuanians, 1942; burning of 1,000 Jews in the synagogue; joins the "Kuznitzov" partisan battalion; survival.