Testimony of Yaakov Ender, born in Krasnik, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in camps in Poland

Testimony of Yaakov Ender, born in Krasnik, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in camps in Poland Life before the war, activities in the Beitar movement; two brothers make aliya to Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; smuggle of goods; "Aktion" and the capture of his father; witness takes his father's place and is sent to labor in a branch of Bereza Kartuska camp, Pesach 1940; volunteers to labor as a carpenter in a group sent to the open camp in Krychow, late summer 1940; transfer to Sawin; release with the help of a payment; labor cleaning streets and other places in Krasnik; labor in Budzyn in army supplies storerooms; labor in place of other Jews in exchange for payment; selection and then labor in a German cemetery, Pesach 1942; transfer to Budzyn, November 1942; labor in a Heinkel factory; labor conditions; escape attempt; receives diamonds that his sister found during her labor sorting belongings in a nearby camp; transfer to Majdanek, May 1944; labor collecting leftovers and cleaning weapons; escape to Krasnik during a forced march, July 1944; in hiding for one week until liberation by the Red Army. Draft into the Polish Army; escape while in Germany and wanderings en route to Eretz Israel; arrival in Eretz Israel, 1946.