Testimony of Joseph Spira, born in Antwerp, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Breendonk Fortress, Malines camp and camps in Poland and Germany

Testimony of Joseph Spira, born in Antwerp, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Breendonk Fortress, Malines camp and camps in Poland and Germany His home and family; activities in the Belgian underground in Brussels using a false identity; deportation to the Breendonk Fortress after being exposed; detention for one week in the Malines camp; deportation to Auschwitz, November 1942; transfer to the Jawiszowice camp, November 1942; camp conditions and events from daily life until January, 1945; evacuation to Buchenwald; transfer to Flossenburg and then to Erfurth where he digs tunnels; death march; air-raids on the way; liberation by the US Army in the Bavaria area, April 1945. Return to Belgium; reunion with his mother; move to South Africa; works as a musician in the Brussels Broadcasting Authority orchestra.