Leo Yehuda Buksbaum

Testimony of Leo Yehuda Buksbaum, born in Frystat, Czechoslovakia, 1920, regarding his experiences in Sosnowiec and prison Life before the war; move to Moravska Ostrava; activities in the Blau Weiss movement. German occupation, 1939; the German's take over the family's shop with a non-Jewish trustee; life on aliya training near Pilsen, 1940; detention and deportation to Sosnowiec; transfer to a prison; release. Aliya attempt onboard the ship "Pentcho"; sinking of the boat off the Greek island of Camica Nisi Kamtla; rescue by the Italian Army; transfer to Rhodes; life in Beitar youth movement under the leadership of Zitron; attitude of the Italians; transfer to Ferramonti; camp life including cultural, social life and work as a children's counselor; transfer to Bari, 1943; move to an aliya training camp in Gromo; aliya to Eretz Israel as a youth counselor with a disabled persons group, 1945; absorption on kibbutz.