Shmuel Nutovitz

Testimony of Shmuel Nutovits, born in Zdenovo, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Tacovo Ghetto and performing forced labor in camps From a religious family with many children; joins a cantorial choir and works to support himself at a young age; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war and move to Tacovo where his grandparents lived; deportation to the Tacovo Ghetto, March-April 1944; deportation to Auschwitz and from there to labor in IG Farben factories, May 1944; transfer to the Birkenau camp; death march towards Buchenwald, January 1945; forced labor in a coal mine; liberation from Buchenwald, April 1945. Living in the Chateau d'Ecouis institution near Paris; aliya to Eretz Israel to Moshav Sde Yaakov, a religious moshav, with Youth Aliyah, April 1945; receives a contractor's license in Tel Aviv; reunion with his brother who he had presumed was missing.