Chaim Leizer Warshawski

Testimony of Chaim Leizer Warshawski, born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto, the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Warta, Buchenwald and Dachau Life before the war; learns in a Polish school and "heder". German occupation, 1939; escape to Lodz; return to Zdunska Wola; life in the Zdunska Wola Ghetto including labor in a smithy; transfer to the Lodz Ghetto, September 1942; ghetto life including labor in a smithy and detention on the charge of stealing; deportation to Czestochowa; transfer to Warta; camp life including labor in a factory and later feeding animals and taking them out to pasture; transfer to Buchenwald, late 1944; camp life including labor clearing rubble; transfer to Dachau, 1945; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization and convalescence; return to Zdunska Wola; reunion with his uncle; aliya to Israel via Germany on the ship, "Altalena", 1948; life in Israel including enlists in the IDF and participation in Israel's wars.