Chaim Hindrish Jindřich Goldshtein

Testimony of Chaim Jindrich Goldstein, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, work as an educator in the ghetto and life in Auschwitz and Taucha camps Attends school; Jewish holidays at home; stays with his sister in Prague. German occupation of Ostrava, March 1939; confiscation of Jewish property; registration at the Gestapo offices; numerus clausus in school; deportation of his father to Nisko; completion of matriculation exams; return of his father to Ostrava; work as a classroom teacher; yellow badge; deportation on trains to Theresienstadt; death of his father; birth of his nephew; life in Theresienstadt; cultural life in the ghetto; labor as an educator and a baker; deportation of his sister and her son to Auschwitz; children's drawings in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz while his mother remains in the ghetto; conditions in the railroad cars; entry into Auschwitz; food; roll-calls; transfer to Taucha camp; forced labor producing anti-tank weapons; illness and treatment; recuperation; daily routine in Taucha; evacuation of the camp; death march; escape from the march; meets a German officer; murder of Jews during the death march. Establishment of a monument, after the war, in memory of those who persished; arrival to Teplice on the Czech border; travel to Prague; return of his mother from Theresienstadt; draft order to officers' training course; work as a caregiver of patients and children; detention in Prague; release, but with restrictions; aliya to Israel with his wife and son, 1949; life in Israel.