Testimony of Natan Wanderer, born in Bochnia, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, Szebnie, Auschwitz, Dachau and other places

Testimony of Natan Wanderer, born in Bochnia, Poland, 1914, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, Szebnie, Auschwitz, Dachau and other places His immediate family's life; his parents' work; Jewish community; his education; order to hand over valuables. German occupation, 1939; decrees; deportations to Belzec; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life and labor; arrival to Bochnia of refugees from Krakow; ghetto is turned into a labor camp; his labor as a pharmacist and medical advisor; hides a baby in a bag; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation of Jews to Auschwitz; deportation of his father to Szebnie; murder of 30 Jews, including his mother, by gunshot; transfer by train to Szebnie where he meets his father; labor in a kitchen; march in the direction of the railroad station and injury to his leg; transfer to Auschwitz; hospitalization in the sick barracks due to a high fever; tattooing of a number; camp life; labor gathering corpses; curfew in the camp; steals bread; attitude of the guards; deterioration to the condition of a Muselmann; labor in the "Canada" barracks; arrival of deportation trains to the ramp; liquidation of the Gypsy camp in Birkenau; hanging of inmates in camp; suicide of inmates on the electric fence; beatings for hiding medicines; transfer to Germany by train; camp life in various concentration camps including Dachau; typhus; his recurrent dream; burial of corpses; escape to a village from a bombed train; life in the village. Return to Bochnia via Prague; move to Germany after the war; marriage in Germany, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption, rehabilitation and starts a family.