Testimony of Yechiel Weinstock, born in Staszow, 1916, regarding his experiences in Staszow and in the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Warta labor camps

Testimony of Yechiel Weinstock, born in Staszow, 1916, regarding his experiences in Staszow and in the Skarzysko-Kamienna, Czestochowa and Warta labor camps Life before the war; school studies; activity in Zionist youth movements; antisemitism before German occupation of Poland. Life in Staszow ghetto; deportation from ghetto to forced labor in Skarzysko-Kamienna camps A and C; living conditions and attitude of Ukrainian guards; activities in camp C; preparations for escape that failed; transfer to camps in Czestochowa; forced labor digging trenches in Warta camp and forced labor in Czestochowa producing spare parts for weapons; renews contact with Zionist resistance movement in Warsaw; deportation to Buchenwald camp, January 1945; camp life; escape from transport to Theresienstadt; joins camp with people of various nationalities; liberation by US Army, 28 April 1945. Convalescence; activities on behalf of Hashomer Hatzair youth movement; aliya to Eretz Israel in 1946; absorption.