Testimony of Aizyk Nojman, born in Zarki, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and Blechhammer, Annaberg, Langenstein and Buchenwald camps

Testimony of Aizyk Nojman, born in Zarki, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Bedzin Ghetto, membership in the Hashomer Hatzair underground and Blechhammer, Annaberg, Langenstein and Buchenwald camps Zionist family; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; orphaned of his father; the family is earns a livelihood by sewing. German occupation; escape in the direction of Lvov; return to Zarki; life in hiding; smuggles leather products to support the family; escape to Bedzin, early 1943; joins the Hashomer Hatzair underground in the Bedzin Ghetto; rescue during an unsuccessful attempt to make contact with the Polish underground; return to the underground in the ghetto; sent by the underground to transfer children to the "Rosner workshop"; deportation to Blechhammer camp, early 1944; camp life and forced labor loading railroad cars and assembling pipes; deportation to Annaberg camp and forced labor taking shoes apart; deportation back to Blechhammer; death march via Gross-Rosen camp to Buchenwald; deportation to Langenstein camp; camp life and forced labor loading rocks; liberation by the US Army. Move to Halberstadt for convalescence; joins a "kibbutz" in Buchenwald; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; settles in Kibbutz Shuval.