Testimony of Yehoshua Bracha, born in Saloniki, Greece, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and various camps

Testimony of Yehoshua Bracha, born in Saloniki, Greece, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz and various camps His home and family. Termination of studies following the outbreak of war between Greece and Italy; German occupation, 1941; Rabbi Zvi Koretz; draft to forced labor with his brother Jacko; details about a Jew named Chasan who was a collaborator; deportation to Auschwitz, 1943; his sister and two brothers remain in Greece; selection in Auschwitz; labor in a clothing and bedding storeroom; transfer to a clinic and then to Buna Monowitz-Auschwitz III; harsh physical labor outside Buna camp; help from the German supervisor, a civilian; relations between the inmates; support and help by the adult Greek inmates to their younger friends; evacuation from Buna to Dora via Gleiwitz; conditions en route; murder of the German inmates; forced labor in Dora camp; transfer to Ludwigsburg; liberation by the US Army. Return to Saloniki via Romania and then to Athens; fate of his family; reunion with his sister in Athens; aliya to Eretz Israel, January 1946.