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Testimony of Shlomo Dragon, born in Poland, about Auschwitz-Birkenau and his activities in the Sonderkommando and the underground

Testimony of Shlomo Dragon, born in Poland, about Auschwitz-Birkenau and his activities in the Sonderkommando and the underground Warsaw Ghetto; black labor in the ghetto; escape from the ghetto with his brother and reach the town of Plonsk; entrance to the Plonsk ghetto; transfer between different ghettos; deportation to Auschwitz on the eve of Hanukkah, December 1942; arrival at camp in the middle of the night; selection; tattoo number on hand 80359; tattoo number on the hand of his brother Abraham 80360; crematorium; body evacuation work from the gas chambers to the Sonderkommando crematorium; contact with the underground in the camp; obtaining explosives for the benefit of the underground; death march; escape from the march. Liberation by the Red Army; assisting the Red Army in interrogating them with instruction on the activities of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; wandering between different places in Poland; move to Berlin; move to Frankfurt; stay about a year; meeting with the brother; aliya to Israel in 1949
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3741318
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Shlama
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Dragon
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Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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דרגון שלמה
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YES
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Audio
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection