Testimony of Zeev Rosenblat Ronen, born in Lodz, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Kaufering camps, and his escape from a death march

Testimony of Zeev Rosenblat Ronen, born in Lodz, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau and Kaufering camps, and his escape from a death march Assimilated family; his father is a tailor; activities in Hashomer Hatzair before the war. Life in the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-June 1944; forced labor, dismantling buildings; labor as a clerk in a Kleider Apteilung factory producing dresses; deportation to Auschwitz; death of his family; deportation to Dachau camp; entry into Kaufering camp; labor for the Moll company; forced labor building subterranean storerooms for weapons; death march during Allied air-raids; escape from a train that was shelled; in hiding in a German village in the Bavarian region; liberation in the Munich area. Move to Italy; aliya training; aliya on the "Dov Hoz" ship; hunger strike in La Spezia; aliya to Eretz Israel, June 1946.