Shmuel George Gourary

Testimony of Samuel George Gourary, born in Naples, Italy, 1921, regarding his experiences in Brussels, prison in France; Mechelen, Gross-Rosen, Hirschberg and other places Life before the war; move to Vienna; education; membership in Beitar; move to Brussels with his mother. German occupation; escape; steals a motorcycle; agricultural studies; escape to France; capture by the Gestapo; detention; attempt to escape; flogging and hospitalization; deportation to Mechelen-Malines; camp life; transfer to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Hirschberg; transfer to other camps; steals food; typhus; activities in the Belgian underground in the camp; steals a bayonet from a German officer; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Belgium; family reunion; fate of his father; Irgun movement activity; trial and punishment in prison; aliya to Eretz Israel; return to Belgium; marriage; return aliya in the 1950s.