Yerakhmiel Tenenbaum

Testimony of Yerakhmiel Rachmil Tenenbaum, born in Wierzbnik, Poland in 1927, regarding his experiences in Starachowice, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Mühldorf and other camps His childhood in Wierzbnik in a religious Zionist family that owns a liquor store; studies in a heder and in a public school; his father's activities in the Mizrahi movement; outbreak of the war in 1939; escape to a village for several days; death of his mother during the German occupation; life in the town's ghetto; transfer to forced labor in an ammunition factory; deportation to Starachowice camp with his father and brother; Starachowice camp life until 1944; transfer to forced labor; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; Auschwitz-Birkenau camp life; transfer to forced labor in the dismantling of aircraft parts; contact with Sonderkommando personnel; approach of the Red Army; transfer to Dachau camp; labor in the removal of those who perished; transfer to Mühldorf camp; transfer to Gross Rosen camp; sent on a death march; liberation by the US Army, in the Munich area; his father's return to Poland; life in a DP camp in Germany; wanderings via Austria, and arrival to Italy; aliya to Israel in late 1948.