Testimony of Pinkhas Segal, born in Wielun, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Wielun and Lodz Ghettos, Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps

Testimony of Pinkhas Segal, born in Wielun, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Wielun and Lodz Ghettos, Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps His childhood in a family of Gur hasidim. German occupation, September 1939; abuse of Jews and using them for various forced labors; deportation of his parents and brother to Chelmno and their murder there, April 1941; liquidation of the Wielun Ghetto, 1941; murder of elderly and sick people in the cemetery; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; labor in a ghetto factory; labor in Zdunska Wola; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna, winter 1942; stay in camp B; labor in an ammunitions factory; transfer to Buchenwald, 1943; transfer to Schlieben; labor in a factory for explosive materials; humane behavior of a female German worker; Allied air-raids on the camp and revenge on the inmates by Hitler-Jugend; transfer to Theresienstadt, 1944; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Acts of revenge on non-Jews in the area; return to Wielun; antisemitic manifestations; move to Lodz; joins Bnei Akiva training; move to Landsberg; aliya to Eretz Israel via Cyprus, 1946; participation in Israel's War of Independence.