Avraham Moshe Klagsborn Ben Eliezer

Testimony of Avraham Moshe Klagsborn b. Eliezer, born in 1924 in Mielec, Poland, about his experiences in the camps in Germany Information about the family: father a disabled veteran of World War I; antisemitism before the war; Mother turns to Pilsudski, president of Poland, for assistance in emigrating to Eretz Israel; he refuses; approaching the Jewish Agency; it refuses; German occupation ensues, Jews rounded up in the market square; children and elderly murdered in a gas van; life in a labor camp at a Heinkel aircraft manufacturing plant until 1943; selection; parting from older brother, parents, and sisters; brother murdered; dysentery epidemic breaks out; Red Army forces approach; women placed aboard a train bound for Germany; deportation to Auschwitz; stopped in Leitmerietz for a year; transferred in the direction of Flossenburg; sent to Dachau in 1944; life in Kaufering VII; selection and transfer to Kaufering IV; life in the camp in total exhaustion; camp set ablaze on April 4, 1945; leaving the camp with two other survivors; encountering American soldiers; taken to Landsberg for convalescence; joining the Betar movement in 1947; a group organizes for emigration to Israel via Lyons; immigration to Israel in late 1949; recovery and adjustment to life in Israel.