Testimony of Yekhiel Aleksander, born in Sulejow, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, camps in Poland and Austria and a death march

Testimony of Yekhiel Aleksander, born in Sulejow, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, camps in Poland and Austria and a death march Childhood in Sulejow. Destruction of the family’s house with the outbreak of the war and move to Lodz; entries and exits into the ghetto to bring an uncle’s belongings into the ghetto; education, late 1941; death of his parents; labor in a weights factory, nail factory and metal factory, then as a runner within the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz, summer 1944; escape to the men’s side after the selection; transfer from Birkenau to Auschwitz, summer 1944; labor in a civilian kitchen in camp, October 1944; smuggling vodka into camp for the Kapo and taking care of the supervisor’s dogs; leaves Auschwitz on the final transport; march and then travel by train to Mauthausen and Melk; labor digging tunnels and as a camp messenger boy; transfer to Gusen I and labor sorting Soviet aircraft parts; labor in Gusen II sorting textiles; return to Mauthausen; march to Guenskirchen; liberation by the US Army. Life after the liberation; rehabilitation and aliya to Eretz Israel, June 1946.