Testimony of David Fuks, born in Sompolno, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sarnki and Bialystok, as a forced laborer, in camps in Germany using a false identity, and a death march

Testimony of David Fuks, born in Sompolno, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in Sarnki and Bialystok, as a forced laborer, in camps in Germany using a false identity, and a death march His childhood; death of his father; attempts to make a livelihood for the family. Outbreak of the war and deterioration of the economic situation; move to Sarnki; improvement in his economic situation after his marriage to the daughter of a wealthy flour mill owner; ghetto life; helps others; stay in a nearby labor camp; deportation of his wife and daughter in an "Aktion", 22 August 1942; travel to the Bialystok Ghetto; meets acquaintances in the underground; leaves the ghetto with a woman friend, using forged documents, 1943; capture and transfer to forced labor; arrival to Tilsit, disguised as Poles; labor in Tilsit until the discovery that his "wife" is Jewish; arrest and deportation to Stutthof as a Pole; labor in warehouses and installing roof tiles; transfer to Elbing and several other camps; return to Stutthof, January 1945; death march; shot and injured; leaves the pit; brought to a hospital by acquaintances; unconscious in the hospital for two months. Return to Poland; aliya to Israel, 1950.