Here is an abbreviated version of Wolfgang Schnieder's version:
"On the march to Lisow, Tiger 323 breaks through a 12 ton bridge. The battalion launches the assault with the first company on the left, the third company on the right and the second company following. Several tanks are bogged down in the swamps beside the narrow road and cannot be recovered. On the South edge of Lisow, the Tiger 111 (Lt. Oberbracht) loses both tracks, nevertheless, it destroys 20 tanks. The second company knocks out 7 T-34s. Tigers 202 and 221 break down during the movement to contact 200 meters in front of the town. Tiger 334 stops with a broken driveshaft. In Lisow the battalion is ambushed by Josef Stalin tanks and hidden anti-tank guns, and is almost completely wiped out. The battalion commander's Tiger is also knocked out....During the retreat, Tiger 332 recovers one of the bogged down tanks of the 3rd company, but suffers a broken track tensioner a short time later and has to be blown up."
On the other hand, here is a brief description of the action from "Kielce 1945" by Norbert Baczyk:
"IS-2 vehicles, most likely from the 13th Heavy Tank Regiment, skirmished with the Tigers from 424 sHPzAbt near Lisow. The advancing Tigers were greeted by powerful and accurate fire from tanks and ant-tank weapons. The armor, made from lower quality steel (due to problems with raw materials) could not withstand the 122mm, 25 kilogram projectiles and the attack broke down. The battalion commander, Major Saemisch was killed and numerous tanks were lost."
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