Testimony of Yechiel Aleksander, born in Sulejow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and other places

Testimony of Yechiel Aleksander, born in Sulejow, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk and other places Life before the war; work of his father as a textile dyer. Outbreak of the war; air-raids; escape to Lodz; life in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-1944; his father's business trade in secret outside the ghetto; death of his mother, 1941; murder of his father outside the ghetto; forced labor in a nail factory, distributing mail etc.; deportation to Auschwitz, June 1944; camp life including labor in a construction school; contacts with a non-Jewish Kapo and transfer to labor in the kitchen; smuggling alcohol into the camp; evacuation of the camp; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Melk; transfer to Gusen; death march to Gunskirchen camp; liberation. Move to Italy with the Jewish Brigade; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.