Testimony of Mordechai Ribak, born in Chodel, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poniatowa, Chodel and Tomaszow and in Majdanek, Stuttgart, Auschwitz, Wierzbnik and other camps

Testimony of Mordechai Ribak, born in Chodel, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Poniatowa, Chodel and Tomaszow and in Majdanek, Stuttgart, Auschwitz, Wierzbnik and other camps His childhood in a traditional, financially secure family; antisemitism. Outbreak of the war; deportation to Poniatowa and Tomaszow; escape to a forest during a mass murder; grabs a German weapon; handed over by Poles; deportation to Zamosc; transfer to Majdanek, 1944; labor clearing rubble; transfer to Wierzbnik; transfer to Auschwitz; transfer to Stuttgart; labor in an airfield; help with food from local residents; transfer to Flossenbuerg; transfer to Buchenwald; death march in the direction of Czechoslovakia; liberation by the Red Army. Hospitalization; antisemitism after the war; illegal aliya to Eretz Israel with the help of Bericha.