Testimony of Moshe Pshigorski, born in Wloclawek, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, the Warta factory in Czestochowa and Buchenwald

Testimony of Moshe Pshigorski, born in Wloclawek, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, the Warta factory in Czestochowa and Buchenwald Religious family; witness’ father owns a knitting factory before the war. Move of his family from Wloclawek to Piotrkow, with the outbreak of the war; labor in a glass factory with his father in a ghetto; living conditions, labor in a factory in the Piotrkow Ghetto; his mother and other family members are taken to Treblinka from the ghetto Sukkot in the Piotrkow Ghetto; transfer of the entire camp to Czestochowa, 1944; labor in the Warta factory producing ammunition; conditions in the camp, where he remained until Czestochowa was liberated by the Red Army; cultural activities in Warta camp; transfer with his father and other inmates to Buchenwald, in Germany, and remain there until the liberation, May 1945; Pesach in Buchenwald; harsh conditions in the camp, and receiving personal help from Helmut, a German Communist physician, who was a POW; receives help from Mankut Meirystaw, a Polish male nurse, who was also a POW; his father’s death in Buchenwald, a short time before liberation by the US Army. Aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.