Arie Goldshtein

Testimony of Arie Goldstein, born in Widawa, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Widawa, Belchatow, Poznan, Gutenbrunn, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Kaufering and in hiding Life before the war; Zionist movement activities. Outbreak of the war; destruction of the family home; deportation to Belchatow, 1941; deportation to Poznan; camp life including labor in water cisterns and channels; transfer to Gutenbrunn; camp life including meeting his father; labor leveling land and digging; escape to the Lodz Ghetto, 1943; ghetto life including labor in a sewing workshop and ironing; surgery on a fracture in a hospital; deportation to Auschwitz, summer 1944; transfer to Kaufering; camp life including labor shaping iron; hauling cement for farmers; labor digging at an air field; life in camp 4; typhus; recovery; his father's death; transfer in an open railroad car; air-raids; escape to a forest with a friend; hidden by a German farmer; liberation by the US Army. Search for family; life in Landsberg; aliya to Israel, summer 1948.