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Testimony of Chaim Shreiber, born in Reghin, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Tuerkheim and Allach

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Testimony of Chaim Shreiber, born in Reghin, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Reghin Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Tuerkheim and Allach Life before the war until 1944. German occupation; deportation to the Reghin Ghetto; ghetto life including labor collecting possessions owned by Jews; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer with a friend to the children's block; escape to his father's barrack; transfer to Kaufering; camp life including labor with his father in a subterranean factory, July 1944; transfer to Tuerkheim, January 1945; death of his father from typhus; transfer on a death march to Allach, April 1945; liberation. Move to Feldafing DP camp and reunion with his sister; move to Italy; enlists in the Irgun; aliya to Israel onboard the ship "Altalena"; enlists in the IDF with his brother who was killed in action; life in Israel.
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Chaim
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Shreiber
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21/03/1929
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Reghin, Romania
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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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07/03/05
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07/03/05
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שרייבר חיים
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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