Arie Leibel Akst

Testimony of Arie Leibel Akst, born in Bodzanow, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and Buchenwald Life before the war; membership in the Bund movement; work in his father's factory; marriage and the birth of two children. Outbreak of the war, 1939; life in Bodzanow; work distributing eggs and in a flour mill; help to refugees; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto, 1941; life in a synagogue; deportation of his wife and children to Treblinka; labor in German factories laying railroad tracks; labor repairing weapons brought from the Russian front; activities in the socialist underground; distribution of food and bread to the needy; deportation to Buchenwald, 1945; liberation by the US Army. Joins an aliya training "kibbutz"; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.