Yosef Likhtenfeld

Testimony of Yosef Lichtenfeld, born in Bedzin, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec, Blechhammer, Grossmasselwitz, Bunzlau and on a death march to Bergen-Belsen Life before the war; traditional family; his father is a house painter; learns in a "heder" and a public school. German occupation; burning of the synagogue; decrees and a yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; men are drafted to forced labor; capture by a German policeman; deportation of Bedzin Jews to extermination in Auschwitz; murder of Poles by Germans; deportation to a transit camp at Sosnowiec; camp life; transfer to Blechhammer; camp life including the Muselmann phenomenon and typhus; transfer to Grossmasselwitz; meets his father in Grossmasselwitz; deportation of his father and his father's disappearance; transfer to Bunzlau; camp life including attitude of the commander and a boy's suicide on the electric fence; death march to Bergen-Belsen; camp life; liberation by the British Army. Return to his hometown; reunion with his sister ; aliya to Eretz Israel via Italy, 1946.