Testimony of Norbert Nachum Moskovich Maringer, born in Cracow, 1924, regarding his experiences in Cracow, Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Testimony of Norbert Nachum Moskovich Maringer, born in Cracow, 1924, regarding his experiences in Cracow, Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps Traditional family; studying in a Jewish school; the bombing on 6 September 1939; German occupation and many escaped to the East; confiscation of Jewish owned property and restrictions of movement; aid from a Pole named Kozreski; establishment of the ghetto, 1941; transfer of his parents and grandfather to Proszowice, 1942; arrest of his mother and her deportation to an extermination camp; deportation of his father to Cracow Ghetto; life with his brother on the outside of the ghetto; joining their father in the ghetto; the hunger and distress in the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz; work building Birkenau camp and the establishment of crematoria 2, 3 and 4; living near the Polish general Cyrankiewicz who was a POW; work in the selection process under Josef Mengele; work in the Potato Kommando and in "Canada"; smuggling food to the family camp from Theresienstadt; arrival of Hungarian Jews, April 1944; attempts together with friends to save young women; the attempts by the Germans to cover up their activities in the camp; evacuation to Gleiwitz and in open train wagons to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 18 January 1945; work in an aircraft factory; evacuation, 20 April 1945; meeting the Count Bernadotte; liberation by the US Army in Schwerin, 2 May 1945. Studying and working in Germany; marriage; giving testimony in Poland against war criminals who were active in Auschwitz, 1950; aliya to Israel.