"You Are A Jew, Mishka": Poem by Yakov Apatshinski, born in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, 1920, regarding a Jewish boy during the war Life in Piotrkow Trybunalski until 1939. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union; enlists in the Red Army, 1941; serves in "Kosciusko" Polish Battalion Number 1, 1943; serves in combat, including in Stalingrad and in Berlin. Life in Bialystok after the war; writing of a poem about a Jewish boy named "Mishka" who is not afraid of hunger or suffering; thoughts of the enemy that the Jew is dead; revival of the Jew and rebirth; spilling of Jewish blood; control of the enemy; calling upon the forest to fight against the enemy.