Testimony of Tzvi Blekhman, born in Grodno, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, Buna Lamsdorf and Bruenlitz camps

Testimony of Tzvi Blekhman, born in Grodno, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Grodno Ghetto, Buna Lamsdorf and Bruenlitz camps Family life till the outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation, September 1939 - June 1941; avoiding exile to Siberia; beginning of the German occupation, June 1941; initial anti-Jewish decrees; life in Ghetto 2; means of obtaining food; deportation from the ghetto, November 1942; selection in Auschwitz; receiving a tattoo number; living conditions and labor in Buna-Monowitz together with his father and three brothers; labor digging peat and unloading cement; loss of his father Mordechai and brother Eli; help from Yaakov Zilberstein the Kapo; his brother Yaakov "found" bread; Allies air raids; death march to Lamsdorf; escape of his brother Yaakov and his friends; forced labor in Bruenlitz camp in a factory for cartridge shells; Schindler's concern for the laborers; liberation, May 1945. Aliya to Eretz Isrel via Italy and Cyprus; absorption and life in Israel.