Testimony of Joel Royzman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Brzesc nad Bugien, Kazakhstan and other places

Testimony of Joel Royzman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Brzesc nad Bugien, Kazakhstan and other places Life before the war; his father's life in German captivity; attends a government school and learns in a "heder"; joins a youth group; vocational union activities. German occupation; shearing of Jewish men's beards; Volksdeutsche activities; escape and separation from his mother; escape to Bialystok on foot; escape to Brzesc nad Bugien; life in Brzesc nad Bugien in the home of a Jewish baker; deportation to forced labor in coal mines; arrest; life in prison; stealing property; deportation to a camp by train; life on the train including distribution of bread and water; camp life including labor; meeting with his brother; release from the camp; labor logging trees in the forest until total exhaustion; escape from the work; escape on foot in the winter; separation from his brother; drafted to Anders Army; wounded on the train and hospitalization; expulsion from the army; life in a kolkhoz in Kazakhstan; work at various jobs; enlists in the Polish division of the Red Army; escape from the division; meeting with a couple and a watchmaker from Lodz. Repatriation to Poland; return to Lodz; life in Lodz; information regarding the deaths of members of his family; reunion with friends who survived; marriage, 1949; aliya to Israel, 1950.