Testimony of Avraham Blumenstok, born in Prague, 1915, regarding his experiences in Sanz, Tarnow and the camps

Testimony of Avraham Blumenstok, born in Prague, 1915, regarding his experiences in Sanz, the Tarnow Ghetto and the camps His family's home in Sanz. Outbreak of the war and entry of the Germans, September 1939; unsuccessful escape to Russia; return to Sanz; life under the German occupation until 1941; hostile behavior; kidnappings; beatings; shearing off beards and sidelocks; yellow badge; forced labor; Judenrat; establishment of the ghetto; Hamann, the German head of the ghetto; forced contributions; liquidation of the ghetto with three transports; work in his father's factory and living in the closed ghetto until the deportation to Tarnow; ghetto life; kitchen work; typhoid; “Aktions"; liquidation of the ghetto, 1943; transport to Plaszow camp; work as a harness maker; selections; transports to Auschwitz; liquidation of the camp and deportation to Mauthausen, summer 1944; deportation to Guson; forced labor in an aircraft factory as a metalworker with many other inmates; torture; hostile behavior; murders; liberation by the US Army, 05/1945. Stay in a convalescent home near Linz for two months; return to Sanz; travel to Austria and Italy; travel from Italy on the illegal immigrant ship "Kaf Gimel Yordei Hasira" ("San Sissimo") to Haifa; detention camp in Cyprus; immigration from Cyprus with a certificate, 01/1947.