Sonia Orbuch - Joining the partisans
Transcript: And ah, so we just didn't know where to go we were lost again and then this peasant [Tohund] came to us and he said look, there are rumors that partisans, Russian partisans in the vicinity, and but, I don't know whether they are friendly to Jews. They might kill you, but I might talk to them, perhaps they accept you, and we said well we have nothing to lose. We waited a long time actually and then came out a commander for political affairs and ah, he started interviewing us, he looked at us, skeletons were sitting there, 4 skeletons dirty, long hair overgrown and um, and he started asking questions, he says, so where are your weapons? We didn't have any weapons. So how many trains did you dynamite? We didn't. So I thought he was not going to take us in, but being that my uncle was a trained scout they ah, needed a scout to lead them into the vicinity where the partisans were. They were strangers in that part of the country so they took us in because of my uncle.