Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce

Testimony of Natan Frydman, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto and using a false identity in a monastery in Kielce Life before the war. Outbreak of the war; burning of his father's shop; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; ghetto life; his mother's death from typhus; hides during "Aktions"; forced labor in the Tebens workshop in the ghetto; deportation of his father to Treblinka; escape from the ghetto; in hiding on the Aryan side; the Warsaw Polish Uprising and his role as a courier; capture and escape from a deportation train to Auschwitz; move to Kielce; hospitalization and recovery; life using a false identity; life in a Kielce monastery; liberation. Contact with the Jewish community center in Warsaw; move to Lodz; move to France and reunion with his aunt in Paris; sets sail to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Exodus", 1947; deportation to France by the British; transfer to Germany; life in camps in Germany; move to Bergen-Belsen; aliya to Israel, 1948; reunion with his grandparents who had made aliya to Eretz Israel before the war; marriage; starts a family; IDF service; studies, and work as a university lecturer.