Mordekhai Orbakh Orbach

Testimony of Mordechai Orbach, born in Praszka, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Krzepice, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Goerlitz and other places The only son in a religious family; tight economic situation; attends a Polish school and "heder". German occupation, 1939; drafted to forced labor; labor with his father paving roads; escape from a camp; capture of his father and his disappearance; in hiding in a forest; move to Krzepice; escape of his mother; volunteers for carpentry labor; transfer with 80 Jewish carpenters to the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life and labor in a carpentry factory, 1942-1944; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer to Goerlitz; camp life and labor in a weapons factory; death march to an unknown destination; return to the camp; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Hospitalization; return to Poland; joins Agudat Israel movement; aliya to Eretz Israel via Czechoslovakia, 1946; starts a family; work in carpentry.