Zvie Warszawski

Testimony of Zvie Warszawski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in forced labor in Oswiecim, Annaberg, Klettendorf, Groeditz and other places Religious, traditional, lower middle-class family; his father is a tailor; move to Oswiecim, 1933. German occupation; forced labor paving roads in Oswiecim, September 1939-November 1940; separation from his parents; deportation to labor camps near Gross-Rosen from November 1940; transfer to Annaberg; camp life and labor paving roads; transfer to Gross-Sarne; camp life and labor paving roads; transfer to Klettendorf; camp life and labor loading iron rods; transfer to Groeditz; camp life and labor building barracks; transfer to a Sportschule near Langenbielau; camp life and labor building barracks; liberation by the Red Army, 8 May 1945. Typhus and dysentery; malnutrition; hospitalization in a Soviet hospital; search for his family in Lodz; joins Gordonia youth movement; life with a group preparing for aliya in Deggendorf DP camp; move to a DP camp in Lampertheim; joins aliya training; separation of the group; work as a policeman; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.