Testimony of Gershon Katzir, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Wirtshafthof and Buchenwald camps

Testimony of Gershon Katzir, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Buchenwald camps His family before the war. Draft of his father, August 1939; German occupation, 03 September 1939; escape to Lodz; life in the Lodz Ghetto; liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto, August 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life; transfer to Wirtschaftshof, an agricultural sub-camp, September 1944; camp life; death march to Buchenwald, January 1945; liberation by the US Army, April 1945. Move to a children's home in France; reunion with relatives in Bratislava; aliya training camp in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel; marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel.