Testimony of Pinchas Grinberger, born in Baiamare, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Baiamare and camps

Testimony of Pinchas Grinberger, born in Baiamare, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Baiamare and camps His chiidhood in an ultra-Orthodox home; life under Romanian rule until 1940; antisemitism; Subbotniks; his brother Hirsh "abandons" their background and becomes a Zionist; his brother's influence. Hungarian occupation from 1940; antisemitism and shearing of sidelocks; rumors concerning what is happening in Poland, 1943; deportation to the ghetto; concentration in a brick factory; attitude of the neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; transfer to labor clearing the rubble of the former Warsaw Ghetto; labor conditions and relations between the inmates in the labor group in Warsaw; death march to Kutno; transfer to Allach and Dachau camps; labor on a German farm, a jet engine factory and repairing railroad tracks; transfer to Muehldorf camp; hunger, typhus and the death of his brother Israel; transfer back to Dachau, March 1945; tattooing of a number; liberation by the US Army. Feldafing DP camp life; return to Baiamare; search for relatives; move to Budapest; hardships during attempt to make aliya to Eretz Israel using a forged Czech passport; DP camp life; joins a Nochum settlers' group; aliya training in Germany; aliya attempt on the "HaMaapil HaAlmoni" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, February 1948; absorption in Israel; attitude of his children toward the Holocaust; his attitude toward Germany.