Testimony of Uziel Lichtenberg, born in Zuromin, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bratislava and Budapest

Testimony of Uziel Lichtenberg, born in Zuromin, Poland, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Bratislava and Budapest Life before the war; move to Lodz; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; work and studies; work to earn the family's livelihood; draft into the Polish Army, 1938. Combat and taken captive by the Germans at the outbreak of the war, 1939; transfer to Germany; labor as a Polish POW on the farm of an SS man; return home, February 1940; move to Warsaw; joins the leadership of a "kibbutz"; life on an aliya training farm; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, late 1940; ghetto life including responsibility for the labor; illegally crosses the border to Bratislava, early 1941; meets members of the "Working Group"; activities to smuggle Jews from Poland to Slovakia; move to Budapest, December 1941; life in Budapest including negotiations to purchase passports; detention on suspicion of spying, December 1941; escape to the Slovakian border after several unsuccessful attempts; forced return to a prison in Budapest; transfer to a labor battalion, October 1944; disguised as a non-Jew and return to Budapest, March 1944; transfer as a non-Jew to several camps; release from the camps; activities in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944.