Testimony of Arthur Tenenbaum born in 1918 Działoszyce regarding his experiences in the Miechów ghetto, the Płaszów and Mauthausen camps and camps in Germany

Life in Działoszyce; from an orthodox family that owned a clothing store; antisemitism before the war; German occupation, 1939; Construction of a bunker under the family home; wearing of the yellow badge; single men taken for forced labor, his brother taken for forced labor in Koszyce; marriage to Mania Moor, 1940, in order to avoid forced labor and his stay in the nearby small town of Skalbmierz; birth of Saul, 1941; concentration of Jews in the city square, 1942; selection and murder of Jews in the area of the cemetery; transfer with his wife, son and the rest of the Jews who survived the Aktion to the Miechów ghetto; deportation of his wife, son and mother to the Bełżec camp where they perished; transfer to Koszyce and reunification with his three siblings and father; forced labor digging trenches for laying pipes; transfer to the Płaszów camp, 1943; forced labor paving roads; forced labor dismantling gravestones in the old Jewish cemetery and later repairing sewing machines; the murder of prisoners by Amon Göth, camp commander; the murder of Shmuel Katz by an SS man in the camp; transfer of his father to the Mauthausen camp, 1944; transfer to the Gross-Rosen camp, October 1944; many roll calls; transfer to the Wüstegiersdorf camp and forced labor building bomb shelters; approach of the Red Army: march to the Flossenbürg camp and after a few days to the Buchenwald camp; transfer to the Theresienstadt ghetto; typhus; Liberation and return to Poland; move to Munich; marriage, 1950; immigration to the United States (two siblings who were in the Feldafing DP camp immigrated to Canada); The testimony was recorded at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Michigan.