Testimony of Menachem Martzly Mallarek Malron, born in Poland, 1930 regarding his experiences in Inowroclaw, Kleczew, Zagorow, Sompolno, the Czestochowa Ghetto, the Krakow Ghetto, Prokocim, the Plaszow camp, Krakow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Shlieben and Theresienstadt

Testimony of Menachem Martzly Mallarek Malron, born in Poland, 1930 regarding his experiences in Inowroclaw, Kleczew, Zagorow, Sompolno, the Czestochowa Ghetto, the Krakow Ghetto, Prokocim, the Plaszow camp, Krakow, Skarzysko-Kamienna, Shlieben and Theresienstadt Testimony regarding his childhood before the war; displays of antisemitism; move to Inowroclaw, 1938; German occupation, September 1939; escape to Kleczew; deportation of all the Jews in the Kleczew vicinity to Zagorow; life in the Zagorow Ghetto; concentration of the Zagorow Jews in the central square and their deportation; escape of the witness and his family to Sompolno with assistance from a Polish friend; confiscation of property; yellow badge; escape after approximately six months, and sneaking into the Czestochowa Ghetto; continued wanderings and escape to the Krakow Ghetto; deportation to Prokocim; work building the railroad; hunger; beatings; transfer to the Plaszow camp after one month; typhus; murder of his mother, summer 1943; abuse; escapes from the work site to purchase cigarettes and smuggling them into the camp; sneaking into Krakow and selling soap; transfer to Skarzysko-Kamienna; various forced labor assignments; hunger; hospital; transfer to digging trenches in the vicinity after a few months; transfer to the Schlieben camp via Buchenwald a month later; various forced labor assignments; death of his father; smuggling food; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Soviets, May 1945; Life after the war; unsuccessful attempt to make illegal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; deportation to Cyprus, aliya to Eretz Israel three months later; absorption.