Testimony of Jacob Shurtz Shacharon, born in Krakow, 1928, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow, Czestochowa, HASAG labor camp, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Jacob Shurtz Shacharon, born in Krakow, 1928, regarding his experiences in Piotrkow, Czestochowa, a HASAG labor camp, Buchenwald and other places Life before the war; attends public school and a "heder". German occupation; expulsion of Jewish students from the public school; confrontation with the priest; his home is turned into a convalescent home; escape to Piotrkow with his sister; his parents' escape to Czestochowa; meeting with his parents; ghetto life; deportation of Jews to Treblinka; in hiding in his uncle's house; Bar Mitzvah celebration in the ghetto; deportation to a HASAG camp and labor as a foreman; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life; transfer to Theresienstadt; meets his mother; liberation. Hospitalization; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption; marriage, 1952; starts a family.