Shmuel Lebenmir

Testimony of Shmuel Lebenmir, born in Wielun, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in Chelmno, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Kaufering Life before the war; celebration of religious holidays; the Jewish community; learns in a "heder"; relations with the neighbors. Air-raids by the German Air Force; round-up of Jews in a church; deportation to Chelmno; death of his wife and daughter in Chelmno; transfer to Lodz; sealing of the ghetto; ghetto life; deaths from starvation; the Jewish police; marriage in the ghetto; birth of a daughter; deportation of Jews in the hospitals; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation by train to Auschwitz; selection by Josef Mengele; transfer to Kaufering; camp life including flogging by Ukrainians and illness; burning of Jews in the barrack; death march; shootings; hiding from torrential rain; liberation by the US Army. Move to Italy; aliya to Eretz Israel; arrival in Sdot Yam, 1946; marriage, 1948.