Chaim Rubshtek

Testimony of Chaim Rubsteck, born in Schiefbahn, Germany, 1927, regarding his experiences in Schiefbahn, Riga, Kaiserwald, Stutthof and Burggraben Family life and the Jewish community in Schiefbahn near Duesseldorf. Expulsion from school because he is Jewish; Kristallnacht; arrest of his father; deportation of his father to Dachau and his release; unsuccessful attempts to leave Germany; round-up of the Jews of Schiefbahn and their deportation by train to Riga, late December 1941; fate of the Schiefbahn Jews; in the Riga-Kaiserwald Ghetto; labor in a steel factory; behavior of the Jewish police; death of his father in Salapils camp; liquidation of the Riga Ghetto, 1943; death of his mother and sister; contact with an aunt in the women's camp; evacuation on German ships to Danzig with the retreat of the German Army; labor in shipyards; deportation to Stutthof and labor in Burggraben camp; inmates' life in camp; typhus and help from a friend from his school days; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Schiefbahn; his family's fate; contacts with Zionist organizations; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.