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
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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item Id
3741318
First Name
Shlama
Last Name
Dragon
Place of Birth
Poland
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives