Testimony of Ariel Moshkovitz, born 1926 in Bratislava, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Westerbork transit camp and Ravensbrueck concentration camp

Testimony of Ariel Moshkovitz, born 1926 in Bratislava, regarding his experiences in Amsterdam, Westerbork and Ravensbrueck Life in Bratislava, Slovakia; moves to Amsterdam where his father was a cantor at the Lekstratt synagogue Entry of the Germans, and deterioration in the living conditions; confiscation of property; witness is deported to Westerbork; from there, he is deported with his mother to Ravensbrueck; life in the camp; beatings and savage dogs; bad treatment by the block elder; humiliation of the Jews by German Gypsies; his experiences as a child in the women's camp; receives letters written by his father from Buchenwald and writes a letter he sent to his father from Ravensbrueck; is deported to Bergen-Belsen; the sight of piles of corpses; hunger. Reunion with his father in Eindhoven after war; struggles to return to normal life; meets with members of the Brigade; reactions in Amsterdam to the announcement of the establishment of the State of Israel.