Permit confirming the membership of Sergey Kulaker in the partisan brigade in Belorussia, 09 October 1943-08 August 1944, issued by the Belorussian headquarters of the partisan movement, 1944 Included in the file: - Certificate confirming the award of the Medal of Victory over Germany during WWII to Sergey Kulaker, 19 March 1946; Comments by the person submitting the material: Israel (Sergey) Kulaker was born in Poltusk, 1929; His parents: Leibl and Esther Kulaker; Siblings: Avram, Shlomo, Yossi, Moishe, Liuba and Eli. The family lived in Poltusk. Deportation of the family from Poltusk and arrival in Lyakhovichi where Esther's sister lived, 1939; remaining there during the period of Soviet rule; German occupation of the town, 26 June 1941; first "Aktion" during which his parents and the children, Shlomo, Moishe, Liuba and Eli were murdered, September 1941; Israel, Avram and Yossi survived; the three brothers lived in the ghetto until the second "Aktion", 10 June 1942; Yossi was murdered during this "Aktion"; the two brothers, Avram and Israel succeeded in escaping from the ghetto to the forest, and joined the partisans after a month and a half; they fought alongside the partisans, until 1944. Following the liberation they traveled to Lyakhovichi to see the killing pit where their parents and siblings were murdered. Avram was drafted into the Red Army and reached Poland, making aliya from there to Eretz Israel. He was sent to a boarding school from which he ran away, and spent some time wandering around the country until he received permission to return to Poland. Avram emigrated to Poland and made a return aliya to Israel from there, [there are no details].