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Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps

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Testimony of Chaim Rozen, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, and Stutthof and Dachau camps Family life in Danzig; move of the family to Kaunas, 1938. Life under Soviet rule until German occupation, June 1941; concentration of the Jews by Lithuanian gendarmes in Slobodka; release of the family; mass shooting of Jews in Slobodka; detention of the family in the Kaunas prison, July 1941; murder of his mother with other women in a forest; sealing of the ghetto, August 1941; ghetto life; "Aktion", October 1941; membership in the Brit Zion youth movement; conversion of the ghetto into a concentration camp, late 1943; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1944; unsuccessful attempt to hide in a bunker in the ghetto, July 1944; deportation to Stutthof and then to Dachau; in camp no. 2 in Dachau until the liquidation of the camp, late November 1944; transfer to camp no. 1; illness and survival with help from friends; transfer by train with other sick inmates, April 1945; in hiding in a forest following an air-raid; liberation by the US Army. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.
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item Id
3559469
First Name
Chaim
Khaim
Last Name
Rozen
Date of Birth
1921
Place of Birth
Minsk, Belorussia (USSR)
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
6415
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Name of Submitter
ROZEN CHAIM
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
35
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Audio
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection