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The Surviving Story of Isak Borenstein

'I was in a Kommando. They call this in German Bomb Kommando. This means, in English means dig out un-exploded bombs. So I dig out together around 60 some odd bombs.'

"I passed the little bridge, I believe this is the Elbe River. On the other side was a Russian soldier. He talked to me Russian. You know, if I explained to you in Russian you would know. The word is 'Kuda idyosh?' ('Where are you going?'). So I told him, 'I am going home.' He said, 'No, you are not going home, you are going into the army.'

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A Taste of Freedom

Conclusion

  • He was taken on a train with cattle carts to Linz III.
  • He stayed three days in the camp and was almost shot.
  • He ran away from the group before the shooting and escaped back to Poland.

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  • He was forced into the Russian army for fourteen months.
  • Afterward, he went back to his home in Radom, Poland.
  • Isak and his brother, Abe, survived the Holocaust and reunited at Radom.
  • He moved to Germany and met his wife there.
  • Finally, he eventually moved to the United States.

Germany Invades Poland

The Escape

Life in Camp

  • When Germans invaded Poland, Isak fled to Krasnodar, Russia.
  • Once in Russia, he joined the army and sent to Kremenchug.
  • He was captured by German soldiers and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
  • Isak escapes the prisoner-of-war camp and flees to a town called 'five houses'.
  • There, he has a friend named Romanoff who got drunk and was questioned.
  • Isak was then turned in and taken to a prison in Dnepropetrovsk.
  • He was forced to work long hours and was given little food.
  • He was in a bomb kamando which meant that he dug out unexploded bombs that the English and Americans through down.
  • In his last days at camp, he moved 200 pound sacks of wheat and oats onto a barge.

Symbolism

Isak Borenstein is like an ox because of his strength and courage during the Holocaust.

Life in Prison

  • Isak was taken to a dark room that was a basement.
  • He met a girl named Ira Pogorelskaja.
  • She nursed Isak to health.
  • Eventually, the Nazis took her out of the prison and she was never seen again.
  • Isak was then tortured in a death chamber.
  • He was given cold showers and beaten with leather straps.
  • Finally, he was transferred to another camp near Dnepropetrovsk.

Born: Radom, Poland

  • Isak Borenstein had 3 brothers and 3 sisters.
  • He was born on May 5, 1918.
  • He worked on a farm until the Holocaust started.
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