Testimony of Menakhem Kfir, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Chemnitz and on a death march

Testimony of Menakhem Kfir, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Chemnitz and on a death march His father's activities on behalf of the community and in Mizrachi; life in Lodz; absorption of Jews deported from Germany, 1938. German occupation and restrictions on the Jews, September 1939; abuse of Jews with beards; burning of the Great Synagogue in Lodz, December 1939; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto, March 1940; his father's position on the Judenrat; life in the ghetto under the leadership of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski; education; Gypsy camp in the ghetto; labor in an underground factory, 1941; Kripo interrogation of his father; "Aktion" and its aftershock, 1942; arrival of deportees from Germany and Austria and the deaths of many; imprisonment, 1943, release and meeting with the Nazi, Biebow; continuation of deportations from the ghetto; deaths of many due to starvation and disease; attitude of a German foreman named Arnold; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, 22 August 1944; his mother's disappearance and remaining with his father; disinfection; life in Block 10 in Lager C; his father's disappearance; transfer to Chemnitz camp, September 1944; labor at Auto Union; air-raids on the camp; cruelty of the Oberscharfuehrer and Vizant, the Kapo; transfer to the DKW-Hohenstein Ernstthal camp on Pesach Seder night; evacuation of the camp with the approach of the front, 13 April 1945; death march until 07 May 1945; liberation in Bochav. Hospitalization in a Karlsbad hospital; attempts to leave Czechoslovakia in the direction of Eretz Israel; arrival in Munich and the Landsberg DP camp, August 1945; marriage; move to Italy with Aliyah Bet, March 1946; return to the Landsberg DP camp, November 1946; his son's birth, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Pan York", August 1948.