Testimony of Natan Orbach, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences in the Zamosc Ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Natan Orbach, born in Zamosc, Poland, 1906, regarding his experiences in the Zamosc Ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other places Outbreak of the war, 1939; German occupation for a short time; Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between the Soviet Union and Germany; German re-occupation; escape to Lwow; return to Zamosc; attempt to return to Lwow with his family; sealing of the border by the Soviets; establishment of the ghetto in Zamosc; ghetto life including "Aktions" and executions; living quarters in a camp outside the ghetto including labor as a closer, the shoemaking craftsman who makes the uppers for shoes; deportation to Majdanek; camp life for four weeks; transfer to Auschwitz, May 1943; camp life including labor in coal mines in the vicinity; labor as a closer-shoemaker in the shoemaking workshop; death march, 18 January 1945; transfer to the Laslau railroad station; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor in the shoemaking workshop; meets Yulek Grinboim, the Kapo from Auschwitz and an activist in the camp underground (?) whose father Yitzhak was a representative in the Polish Parliament; liberation by the US Army, 11 April 1945. Return to Poland; life in Germany; aliya to Israel, 1948.