Testimony of David Baumgarten, born in Zaglebie-Golonog, 1924, regarding his experiences in camps in Poland and Germany

Testimony of David Baumgarten, born in Zaglebie-Golonog, 1924, regarding his experiences in camps in Poland and Germany Family way of life; relations with the local population. First days of the German occupation; establishment of the Judenrat; deportation to forced labor in Sosnowiec and then in Auenrode, April 1940; labor paving roads; camp life; transfer with part of the group to Gabersdorf; meets his brother; transfer to the Russian front as an auxiliary force to the German army near Leningrad; return to Annaberg, then to Tarnowiec; labor laying railroad lines; camp life; transfer with about 50 men to a brick factory in Gross Pogel, 1943; relations with his supervisors; transfer to Kittlitzstreben concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; camp life; death march in the direction of Buchenwald, and then to Neubeuern, February 1945; liberation, 22 April 1945. Acts of revenge against Germans who abused them; aliya attempt; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.