Testimony of Julian (Goldman) Gilead, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the Aryan side of Warsaw and Auschwitz

Testimony of Julian (Goldman) Gilead, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, on the Aryan side of Warsaw and Auschwitz From a middle-class, assimilated family; an educated family; displays of antisemitism; studies in a Jewish-Polish school; the German invasion into Poland, 01 September 1939; Germans reside in their apartment; escape to an uncle in Krzemieniec; his mother is arrested at the border; escape to Vilna; his father returns to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1941; his mother, sister and relatives return to the ghetto; ghetto life; earning a livelihood; learns in the ghetto; "Aktions"; escape from an "Aktion"; his parents' death; his sister is smuggled to a village; the death of two other family members; escape with the uncle to his caregiver (Celina) to Warsaw , January 1943; life as a Polish street child until the Warsaw Polish Uprising in the summer of 1944; observation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from the outside; life in a village while working in secret to distill alcohol; deportation to Auschwitz camp and his separation from Celina, and then bringing her food from the other side of the fence; work pulling wagons; life with the Warsaw street urchins; fear that his Jewishness would be discovered when he showered; beaten, as punishment; the Sonderkommando uprising; suppression of the uprising; the uprisers are executed; hospitalization in a clinic together with dwarfs and twins; evacuation of the camp with the approach of the Red army; transfer to Berlin for forced labor; air-raids; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Travel toward Warsaw on foot and by train; return to his family's apartment; placed in the orphanage in Zakopane run by Lena Kichler-Zilberman; escape with Aliya Bet people to France, 1946; life in France; illegal immigration attempt on the "Exodus" ship; deportation to Europe; aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948; absorption in Israel.