Selig Dukshitzky, a former school teacher in this city, is now fighting with a Soviet guerrilla band in Lithuania, it was revealed in a letter received today by his relatives here.
Dukshitzky, who was visiting the town of Dolhinow, near Vilna, when the war broke cut, and was consequently unable to return to Palestine, reports that in April and May of last year the Germans slaughtered 3,100 Jews in Dolhinow. The few Jewish survivors, including the ex-school teacher, fled until they encountered a Russian partisan band.
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