Testimony of Efraim Perleman, born in Piaseczno, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Efraim Perleman, born in Piaseczno, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war. Draft of his father and the outbreak of the war, 1939; return of his father and his escape to Warsaw; transfer to barracks near a forest; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life and smuggling food into the ghetto; capture of relatives in the "Aktions", 1942; labor with his brothers in an engine factory; transfer back to the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943; sneaks into a labor group that labored outside the ghetto; transfer to the ghetto the day after suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; deportation to Majdanek; camp life; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life and labor cleaning the guards towers and the commander's building; liquidation of the camp, summer 1944; labor digging ditches; labor as an apprentice carpenter; transfer to Czestochowa; camp life and labor laying railroad tracks; transfer to Buchenwald, late 1944; transfer to Schlieben; camp life and labor in a rocket factory; transfer to another camp; camp life and labor clearing smashed rocks; death march; failed escape attempt from the deportation train; transfer to Ravensbrueck under the supervision of the Red Cross; escape; capture; liberation by the US Army. Return to Poland; move to Germany; life in a DP camp; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya, 1946.