Testimony of Yitzhak Pankovski, born in Wieruszow, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Wieruszow Ghetto and camps

Testimony of Yitzhak Pankovski, born in Wieruszow, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Wieruszow Ghetto and camps Life in Kepno before the war; his father, a bookkeeper, is a textile merchant. Deportation of the Jews from Kepno and move of the family to Kalisz; brief stay in Kalisz with family members; family's escape from a monastery in which the Jews had been concentrated and return to Wieruszow, November 1939; life in Wieruszow until the concentration of the Jews in the Wieruszow Ghetto, April 1942; ghetto life; deportation to labor building railroad tracks in Antonienhof and then in Gutenbrunn, November 1942; camp life in Antonienhof and Gutenbrunn; labor and the attitude of the guards and foremen toward the inmates; transfer of the witness with all the other inmates to a detention camp in Auschwitz and then to labor in Lagisza building an electric power plant, August 1943; transfer to Jaworzno camp; camp life; march of all the inmates to Blechhammer and Gross-Rosen, 17 January 1945; murder of the weak by the guards; continuation of the march to Zittau, with a relatively smaller group, February, 1945; labor in an aircraft parts factory until the liberation; liberation, 08 May 1945. Return to Poland and Kepno along with friends; arranges a place to live and work in a shoemaking workshop; move to Wroclaw, aliya to Israel.