Testimony of Levi Sweitzer, born in Przedecz, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Przedecz, as a forced laborer in the Poznan and Katowice areas and in Flossenbuerg, Gleiwitz, Buna and Oranienburg camps

Testimony of Levi Sweitzer, born in Przedecz, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Przedecz, as a forced laborer in the Poznan and Katowice areas and in Flossenbuerg, Gleiwitz, Buna and Oranienburg camps His childhood; learns in a "heder" and attends a Polish elementary school; activities as the head of the tailors' association of the Bund; deterioration of the situation. German occupation; forced labor; establishment of the Judenrat; labor as a tailor for the Germans; deportation to a labor camp in the Poznan area, 01 October 1941; cruelties toward the inmates by the Jewish foremen in the camp; transfer to Auschwitz, August 1943; transfer to a camp in the Katowice area, one week later; return to Auschwitz, late1943; transfer to Buna camp (Auschwitz camp number three), January 1944; transfer to Gleiwitz; death march, January 1945; stay in Flossenbuerg and Oranienburg; liberation in Dachau. Aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption.