and, of course, this is what happened with the rabinowitz family.e to escape in august of 1942, right during the most terrible thing that happened to the jews of zhetel, which, of course, was the liquidation of the ghetto, when the nazis basically killed all of the remaining jews except for a very small number. >> reporter: they end up in the forest. and then tell us about what life was like there. it was incredibly difficult for a number of years. >> so they went into the forest in the summer of 1942, and that-- the summertime was actually probably the most benevolent season of this area, because the winters are absolutely brutal. the temperatures drop to about negative 20 degrees. and i think during these winters that they were there-- and the family was there for two years-- it was even colder. and of course, they weren't safe in the woods, as i think that they imagined they would be, because there were still people-- local groups, poles, and lithuanians and others who had aligned with the germans and the nazis, and were looking for partisan figh

of course, this is what happened with the rabinowitz family. august of 1942, right during the most terrible thing that happened to the jews which was the liquidation of the ghetto. the nazis basically killed all of the remaining jews except for a very small number. reporter: they end up in the forest. tell us about what life was like there. it was incredibly difficult for a of years. >> they went into the forest in the summer of 1942. the summertime was probably the most benevolent season in this area because the winters are absolute brutal. the temperatures drop to about -20 degrees. during these winters that they were there, the family was there for two years, it was even colder. they weren't safe in the woods. there were still people, local groups, who had aligned with the germans and the nazis and we looking for fighters and jewish family camps, which is what the rabinovitz family did. they formed a family camp. they were constantly on theove . they built small communities in the woods, underground bunkers. they basically made as much of a