Testimony of Shmuel Goldshtein, born in Kielce, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Maerzbachtal, Kaltwasser, Dornau and Schotterwerk camps

Testimony of Shmuel Goldshtein, born in Kielce, 1909, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and Maerzbachtal, Kaltwasser, Dornau and Schotterwerk camps Youth and studies in Kielce; work as a clerk in a Jewish bank in Lodz until the outbreak of the Polish-German war. Continues to work in the bank after its nationalization by the Germans; in the Lodz Ghetto, which was a large industrial center for the Germans; establishment of many factories - ressortes - in the ghetto, which employed those able to work; hunger, deterioration of sanitary conditions, epidemics and mass death in the ghetto; work as an accounts manager in the headquarters of Jewish police and as a clerk in the registration department of the ghetto; cultural activities in the ghetto; "Black Thursday" in the ghetto; his opinion on the "concept" of the head of the Judenrat Rumkowski of "saving through labor"; underground radio operation by Widawski and his suicide in the ghetto; accostability, harassment and deportation of most of the ghetto's inhabitants to extermination camps; deportation on a transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 26 August 1944; transfer to Kaltwasser camp, October-November 1944; Maerzbachtal camp, December 1944-January 1945; Dornau camp, February-March 1945; Schotterwerk camp, March-May 1945. Active as the secretary of the Ichud Zionist movement in Poland after the war; arrest by the Soviets; interrogation; antisemitism in Poland and antisemitic abuse by Poles; the Kielce Pogrom, beginning of July 1946; mass emigration of Jews from Poland; active as a leader for a group of illegal immigrants; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.