Testimony of Arie Leib Zilberstein, born in Kolbiel, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and other places

Testimony of Arie Leib Zilberstein, born in Kolbiel, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Budzyn, Plaszow, Sachsenhausen and other places German occupation; concentration of the Jews in the synagogue; labor collecting belongings of Jews; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto on foot; meets a relative in the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; draft of his father and brother to labor; digging bunkers for hiding places; move to another apartment; in hiding in a shelter; interrogation at the Gestapo headquarters; concentration of Jews in a railroad station and the shooting of Germans by a Jewish woman; transfer to Lublin; camp life; transfer to Budzyn with his father; camp life including labor building barracks; transfer to various camps including Plaszow; life in camps with his father; relinquishment of the opportunity to escape from one of the camps; instance of cannibalism in one of the camps; transfer to Sachsenhausen; camp life; liberation by the US Army. Loses contact with his father; hospitalization of his father; return to Warsaw; joins the Dror movement; learns Hebrew; return to Germany; reunion with his father in Bergen-Belsen DP camp; aliya to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet, 1946; enlists in the Haganah; IDF service.