Testimony of Rafael Izraelovitz Pollak, born in Kolo, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Kolo, Posen, the Lodz Ghetto, and Auschwitz, among other places

Testimony of Rafael Izraelovitz Pollak, born in Kolo, Poland in 1922, regarding his experiences in Kolo, Posen, the Lodz Ghetto, and Auschwitz, among other places Life in his parents’ home in Kolo; escape of refugees there in 1939; escape from home in September 1939; escape back home; transfer to forced labor; distribution of work cards; prayer in secret; impositions of restrictions on movement; escape to housing in the Yavne school; wearing an armband; wearing the yellow star; imposition of taxes on the Jews; transfer in trucks to Posen in June 1941; hunger; transfer to labor digging trenches; expulsion to the Lodz Ghetto in February 1943; deportation by train to Auschwitz; life in the camp in Block 16; life in the “Canada” area of the camp; labor among the sonderkommando; dismantling of the crematorium that was damaged during the revolt of October 1944; transfer from the camp on 18 January 1945; transfer to Flossenbürg; given a red mark on the forehead; stripe shaved in his hair; transfer to Saal an der Donau in February 1945; burning of the sick people in the camp; transfer by death march to Dachau; life in the camp; air raids; liberation; transfer to Feldafing as part of Aliya Bet to Eretz Israel in January 1947; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel on the “Moledet”; expulsion to Cyprus; life in the Camps No. 55 and 65; work in the hospital in Nicosia; aliya to Israel on the “Pan York.”