Testimony of Natan Ben-Brith, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Gurs, St. Cyprien, Drancy, Ottmuth and other places

Testimony of Natan Ben-Brith, born in Hamburg, Germany, 1923, regarding his experiences in Gurs, St. Cyprien, Drancy, Ottmuth and other places Religious well-to-do family; education in a Jewish school. Arrest of his father; deportation of his father to Oranienburg camp after Kristallnacht; move of the witness to relatives in Brussels; move of his mother and younger sister to Brussels, April 1939; life in Brussels until May 1940. German occupation, 1940; deportation to St.Cyprien camp in southern France; liquidation of the camp by the French; deportation to Gurs camp; move to Limoges with help from the OSE organization; attends an ORT school until August 1942; arrest and deportation to Drancy camp; transport on a deportation train to Auschwitz and then to Ottmuth; camp life including labor in a shoe factory; transfer to Blechhammer camp, April 1944; camp life; death march to Gross-Rosen, December 1944; transfer to Buchenwald, February 1945; transfer to the Tirol area; liberation, May 1945. Return to France, July 1945; reunion with his mother and sibliings; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.