Testimony of Avraham Podchlebnik, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz

Testimony of Avraham Podchlebnik, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz Death of his father when the witness was a toddler; learns in a "heder"; attends a local elementary school; learns to be a tailor from his brother; marriage, 1928; move to Lodz; his mother's death, 1938; separation from his wife. Outbreak of the war; escape to the Soviet Union; return to Lodz; life in the Lodz Ghetto; arrangement of a group marriage ceremony by Rumkowski, the Judenrat chairman; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to Auschwitz, summer 1944; camp life including rescue during selections; blindness as a result of flogging; life in the camp clinic; liberation, January 1945. Aliya to Israel, 1950.