Testimony of Chanoch Barak, born in Brzeziny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lodz and Pabianice, Czestochowa and Buchenwald camps

Testimony of Chanoch Barak, born in Brzeziny, 1922, regarding his experiences in Lodz and Pabianice, Czestochowa and Buchenwald camps Traditional home with eight children; his father is a tailor; attends a "heder" and a Polish school. Air-raids on their home; residence at home during the ghetto period; deportation of his father, 1942; deportation of his mother with four of the children to Chelmno, May 1942; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; transfer to Pabianice camp; forced labor as a chamber-man for nine months until the liquidation of the camp; return to Lodz and labor in a wood factory; transfer to Czestochowa, 1944; forced labor in a weapons factory; transfer to Buchenwald and from there to another weapons factory; travel by train; shelling of the train; march to the Czechoslovakian border; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Lodz; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1956.