Khaim Gelbshtein

Testimony of Chaim Gelbshtein, born in Zgierz, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Mauthausen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gussen II, Gusenkirschen camps Life before the war. Entry of the Germans and deportation to Lodz Ghetto, December 1939; life in the ghetto and work as a messenger for the Labor Office; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, summer 1944; life in the camp; transport to Mauthausen, October 1944; life in the camp including labor in the quarries; transport to Gusen II; life in the camp; death march to Gusenkirschen; life in the camp; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization in Wels; wandering in Italy from late 1945 until aliya to Israel in 1948. Recruitment to the IDF; absorption.