Avraham Albert Grotas

Testimony of Albert Grotas, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1915, regarding his experiences in Thessaloniki, Auschwitz, Katowice, Mauthausen and Ebensee Deaths of his parents; adopted by a family His brother's death as a soldier during in the war; drafted into 31 battalion; German occupation, April 1941; concentration of the Jews in the Baron Hirsh quarter; activities of Rabbi Kurtz; deportation by train to Auschwitz; tattooed with a number on his arm; transfer to Katowice; camp life including forced labor; return to Auschwitz; camp life including labor gardening; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Ebensee; camp life; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization; move to Italy; marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.