Testimony of Elkana Levkovitz, born in Lututow, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Landsberg and a death march
Move of his family to Zdunska Wola, 1929; vocational training in textiles; activities in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement.
Forced labor on the pioneer farm in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto; mass hangings of Jews; smuggle of vegetables into the ghetto for his family; liquidation of the ghetto and transfer to the Lodz Ghetto, August 1942; attempts to establish an underground; labor on a plot of land; labor in a carpentry workshop; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Kaufering, Utting and Landsberg camps; labor in the construction of a subterranean aircraft factory in Germany; death march from Dachau; liberation in Toelz.
Nochum activities in Munich; activities in Aliya Bet and DP camps in Germany; illegally crosses borders in Europe; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the illegal aliya "Tel Chai" ship, 1946; detention in Atlit; absorption in Kibbutz Degania.
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3564042
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Elkana
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Levkovitz
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1924
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Lututow, Poland
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Testimony
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9588
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives