Testimony of Jacob Maestro Dzhakito, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding his experiences in Thessaloniki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Melk and Wels

Testimony of Jacob Maestro Dzhakito, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1927, regarding his experiences in Thessaloniki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Melk and Wels Childhood in Thessaloniki; his father is a travel agent; a poor family in the "Baron Hirsch" neighborhood; studies at a school belonging to the community. Deportation to the "Baron Hirsch" ghetto; Rabbi Kurtz's promises regarding the move to Poland; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Transport No. 38850, 14.03.1943; selection; disinfection; transfer to quarantine block 9A; tattoo number on hand 109625; solidarity among Greek prisoners; transfer to Block 24 of job holders as a work sorter; saving the lives of many Jewish prisoners; involvement in the transfer of explosives to rebels in the crematorium; a death march from Auschwitz in open wagons to Mauthausen; transfer to Austria to Melk; transfer to Wels for ten days. Liberation; hospitalization due to typhus; transfer to Italy by acquaintances from Greece in the Brigade; year and a half in Santa Maria Di Bagni; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship Wedgwood, 1946.