Die Strasse nach Lemberg : Zwangsarbeit und Widerstand in Ostgalizien 1941-1944

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1915 in Vilna. Yones was active in the Bund. With the Soviet occupation of Vilna, he fled in order to escape arrest. (After the Nazi occupation in 1941, his father and two brothers were murdered by the Nazis.) Yones managed to reach Lvov, where he experienced a pogrom incited by the Germans in July 1941, during which several thousand Jews were murdered. Yones was one of only 80 Jews who were arrested and survived. In November 1941 he was deported to the Kurowice labor camp, where he worked on the construction of a road between Lvov and Tarnopol. In August 1943, he managed to escape shortly before the liquidation of the camp and the murder of all the prisoners. He joined Jewish partisans in the forests who were fighting against the Germans and also against Ukrainian informers who hunted the victims for money. In 1944 he volunteered for the Soviet Army, was almost caught twice by the Soviet secret service, and finally returned to Vilna in spring 1946. He worked in DP camps until his emigration to Israel in 1950. Pp. 229-237 contain an epilogue by Susanne Heim, summarizing Yones' life and activities. תרגום של: יהודי לבוב בתקופת השואה 1941-1944. 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.