Подвигов не совершал--: записки партизана

Plotkin was born in Turets (in those days - Poland) as Aaron Plotkin in 1923. In 1939 this area was occupied by the Soviets. Prior to the war, Plotkin lived in the village of Khorostovo. Describes the interregnum in the village between the retreat of the Soviets in June 1941 and the entry of Germans - some Jews were killed by the locals at this period. In August 1941, a massacre of Jewish men in Khorostovo took place, during which Plotkin managed to flee. He and his mother arrived to the ghetto of Lenin. Later he was transferred to a labor camp in Gantsevichi, from which he escaped together with a group of other Jewish slave laborers. They were rejected by a Soviet partisan unit which operated in this area and Plotkin went eastward, where, near Oktyabrskii, he was taken by the partisan unit headed by Pakush, in which there were many Jews. After the war, Plotkin learned that 1,600 Jews were killed in Turets.