Testimony of Simon Maus, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto

Testimony of Simon Maus, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto Attends vocational school in Lodz. Entry of the Germans; first orders against Jews; kidnappings to forced labor; employment of Jews in workshops; establishment of ghetto; Judenrat activities; labor as technician in the ghetto electric station; hunger, diseases and deteriorated sanitary conditions; his father's death from starvation in ghetto; deportation of his mother and sister to extermination camps; implementation of sabotage activities by work crew at electric station; actions of head ghetto administrator, Hans Biebow; ghetto turned into labor camp working on behalf of the German military industry; evacuation of ghetto, August 1944; witness remains with the last Jews in ghetto to remove deportees' property and clean ghetto area; hiding with a group of Jews until liberation; liberation by the Red Army, 19 January 1945. Witness' interrogation by Red Army soldiers and his release thanks to a Jewish officer; Lodz as center of "She'erit Hapletah"; activities of the Jewish public committee; work in Polish Ministry of Defense and in movie industry; emigration to Mexico and aliya to Israel, 1957.