Khaim Bugaiski

Testimony of Chaim Bugajski, born in Wodzislaw, 1918, regarding his experiences in Skarazysko-Kamienna and hiding with a farmer in Niegoslavice His family before the war; learns in a "heder" and helps the family's livelihood. Entry of the Germans and anti-Jewish decrees, 1939; collaboration of the Volksdeutsche with the Nazis; forced labor building homes for Germans until 1942; deportation of the Jews, late 1942; hiding with a Polish farmer; deportation to Skarazysko-Kamienna; life in the camp including forced labor manufacturing ammunition; sabotage accusation and punishment by flogging; meeting his brother in the camp; typhus; escape to Niegoslavice and hiding with a Polish farmer; meeting another brother and relatives in hiding; life in hiding including his sister-in-law giving birth and burying the baby in the forest; liberation, January 1945. Move to Wodzislaw; work in commerce in Sosnowiec; move to Germany; return to Poland; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1950, adjustment.