Testimony of Ari Avraham, born in Bialystok, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, the Bialystok Ghetto, Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a death march and in other camps

Testimony of Ari Avraham, born in Bialystok, 1928, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, the Bialystok Ghetto, Blizyn, Auschwitz-Birkenau, a death march and other camps His childhood; attends a Tarbut school; death of his sister from a stone thrown at her head by a Pole, 1938. Outbreak of the war and entry of the Red Army, 1939; outbreak of the war between the Soviets and the Germans, 1941; deportation to the Bialystok Ghetto; his father works in trade outside the ghetto; witness studies with a teacher along with other children and then learns in a metalwork school that is turned into a workshop where he works in ironwork; ghetto life; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1943; deportation with his father to Blizyn after a brief stay in Majdanek camp; forced labor in a quarry breaking stones; receives extra food in exchange for gold that his father gave to Ukrainians; transfer to a knitting factory; typhus; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944; selections with ill children from Lithuania; labor collecting garbage; transfer by train to Sachsenhausen camp, November 1944; transfer to Landsberg camp; how the camp was organized and how labor was initiated, November 1944; transfer to Dachau camp, late 1944; transfer to Leonberg camp and labor in a Messerschmitt factory; witness tries to sabotage an aircraft wing while screwing the wing onto an aircraft; receives bread in exchange for tobacco which he collected from cigarette butts; air-raids on the factory; labor; injury; labor distributing food; death march, April 1945; transfer to Landsberg camp by train and then on foot to Munich-Allach; liberation by the US Army. Aliya to Israel after studies in Italy, 1948.