Testimony of Yaakov Fride, born in Leczyca, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Leczyca Ghetto, Konin, Auschwitz, Blechhammmer and other places

Testimony of Yaakov Fride, born in Leczyca, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Leczyca Ghetto, Konin, Auschwitz, Blechhammmer and other places Life before the war. German occupation; anti-Jewish legislation including payment of forced contribution; escape of his father to Warsaw; ghetto life; deportation to forced labor; transfer to Poddebice; transfer to Konin labor camp, March 1942; camp life; transfer to Andrzejow, September 1943; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1943; camp life; transfer to Jaworzno, late 1943; labor in a coal mine in Rudolfsgrova; death march to Blechhammer, 18 January 1945; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life including labor clearing rubble in Weimar; Red Cross packages in the punishment barracks; transfer to Flossenbuerg; labor clearing rubble, March 1945; transfer to Mauthausen; liberation by the US Army, 05 May 1945. Enlists in the Jewish Brigade and move to Italy; aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, May 1947; combat in Israel's War of Independence; life in Israel.