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Testimony of Avraham Horonchik, born in Lutomiersk, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lutomiersk Ghetto, Liebanau, Buna, Bergen-Belsen and other places

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Testimony of Avraham Horonchik, born in Lutomiersk, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lutomiersk Ghetto, Liebanau, Buna, Bergen-Belsen and other places From a poor family; learns in a Polish elementary school and a "heder"; Jewish community. German occupation, 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; deportation to the Lutomiersk Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; Jewish police and Judenrat; labor for the German gendarmerie; "Aktion" during the Rosh Hashana prayers, deportation to a assembly point near Lodz; transfer to Liebenau; camp life including labor digging pits and paving roads; transfer to two additional work camps; labor paving roads; deportation to Auschwitz, late 1943; transfer to Buna; camp life; death march to Gleiwitz, January 1945; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Munich; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; liberation by the British Army, May 1945. Move to the Netherlands; return to Germany; life on a kibbutz; aliya attempt via Italy, 1947; deportation to Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel; military service; his son is killed in action during the Six Day War.
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Avraham
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Horonchik
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21/01/1922
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Lutomiersk, Poland
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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21/09/04
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27/09/04
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הורונצ'יק אברהם
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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Video
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Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection