Testimony of Jacko Yaakov Razon, born in Saloniki, Greece, 1921, regarding his experiences in Saloniki, Auschwitz as a boxer and forced labor camps in Germany

Testimony of Jacko Yaakov Razon, born in Saloniki, Greece, 1921, regarding his experiences in Saloniki, Auschwitz as a boxer and forced labor camps in Germany Family life and his father's profession; his activities as a boxer in the Maccabi club under the patronage of Dino Uziel, the coach, in Saloniki from 1935; winning the boxing championship in the Olympia Hall in Athens, 1939; sabotage activities against the Nazi occupiers in Salonica with other Jewish youth, 1942; informed on and arrested for stealing food; Gestapo interrogation; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1943; en route by train; selection; transfer to the Buna camp, Auschwitz III; selection to be a camp boxer; boxing practice in the camp showers; boxing competitions; help from a Jewish physician from Greece; work in the Buna kitchen and receiving food supplements because he boxed; stealing food for his friends; captured and flogging as a punishment; inmate life in Block 26 in Buna camp; contact with Salomon Arukh then, and the disagreement between them today; evacuation of Auschwitz, January 1945; death march to Nordhausen, Gleiwitz Dora; living conditions in the camps; labor; food; hanging of Soviet POWs; transfer to Bergen-Belsen and Celle; liberation by the British Army. Acts of revenge on the Germans; return to Greece via Belgium; meets his future wife in Celle; detention in Cyprus en route to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946, his family today; ramifications of the Holocaust on his life.