To get a feel for what happened to Sam (Sane) and his family after the Nazi occupation of Ryki, we visited the munitions factory site in Stawy where Sam worked as conscripted labor, the camp in Deblin where his brothers and sister worked as conscripted labor and the vast woods that sheltered the four brothers for two years when they were Partisans.  Their sisters were taken to a death camp and murdered.

 

Listen to Sam talk about living in the woods with his brothers and about 40 other Jews.  These clips are taken from interviews done in the mid-1980‘s. Just click the triangle below each drawing (the incredible drawings below were made by a Polish Partisan known as Horshati who joined up with the Bielski brothers featured in the movie Defiance). To see a document attesting to Partisan participation of Beryl Bronkesh, click here.