Testimony of Ovadia Baruch, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony of Ovadia Baruch, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Mauthausen and other places Life in the Baron Hirsch Jewish neighborhood in Thessaloniki before the war; attends a Hebrew school. German occupation, 06 April 1941; works for a non-Jew in a bakery and for the Germans; establishment of the Thessaloniki Ghetto in Baron Hirsch; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 14 March 1943; camp life including labor laying pipes near the crematorium for two weeks; transfer to Babitz near Auschwitz; camp life including agricultural labor for approximately one month; transfer back to Auschwitz with a group of eight Jews from Greece; rescue from murder by Yaakov Mastro, a Greek Jew; transfer to the Union bomb factory; labor unloading coal from freight trains for approximately one week; night shifts in the factory; factory is dismantled; death march, 18 January 1945; transfer to Katowice; transfer to Dachau; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Gusen I; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory; transfer to Gusen II; camp life including labor on radio receivers for aircraft; liberation by the US Army, 05 May 1945. Hospitalization in the Rothschild Hospital in Austria; return to Gusen; life with the Soviets near Mauthausen; move to Hungary; move to Yugoslavia; return to Greece; aliya to Eretz Israel as part of Aliya Bet, early 1946; marriage to a Holocaust survivor who had been a victim of medical experiments.