Testimony of Simcha Angrest, born in Konskie, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Zamosc Ghetto, with the partisans and camps in Poland and Germany

Testimony of Simcha Angrest, born in Konskie, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Zamosc Ghetto, with the partisans and camps in Poland and Germany His childhood in Konskie. Outbreak of the war and the family's escape to Lublin; escape to Zamosc; forced labor; Zamosc Ghetto life; forced labor collecting the deportees' belongings; deportation to Treblinka; forced labor collecting and coordinating the deportees' belongings; escape; hides in a train engine for two days; walk to the Zamosc Ghetto; labor in Lipsko logging trees; murder of members of the labor group; witness deceives two Germans and joins the partisans; participation in the explosion of railroad tracks; capture and deportation to Majdanek; futile forced labor; transfer to Skarzysko; labor in a HASAG ammunitions factory; transfer to Buchenwald, approximately one year later; transfer to forced labor in a weapons factory in Schlieben camp; explosion of the factory and liquidation of the camp; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Smuggle of weapons to Eretz Israel; activities to help children make aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Israel, 1949.