Testimony of Ephraim Dvir Davidowitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sighet, the Flossenbürg camp, Niederoderwitz, and Litoměřice

Testimony of Ephraim Dvir Davidowitz, born in Sighet, Romania, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sighet, the Flossenbürg camp, Niederoderwitz, and Litoměřice Childhood before the war; from a religious family in Sighet; his father is a carpenter; attends a regional Romanian school; transfer to the Sighet yeshiva under the direction of Rabbi Teitelbaum; outbreak of war in Poland; draft to Hungarian labor battalions; departure to Poland in 1942; deportation to labor camps in Germany; transfer to Flossenbürg; entry into the camp; receiving prisoner number 92432 and transfer to Block 40; escapes selection due to being a carpenter; his transfer to Niederoderwitz; work in a factory producing electrical wires; transfer to Litoměřice; work in excavations at a factory for producing engines; liberation; life in a Russian hospital in Theresienstadt; return to the family home in Sighet; finding a non-Jewish family at home; travel to Oradea; reuniting with his brothers; joining the Bnei Akiva movement; aliya attempt on the ship "Palmach" in September 1946; deportation by the British to Cyprus; living in the "summer camp" for six months; aliya to Israel.