Testimony of Leon Yehuda Klapholtz, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Plaszow, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Dachau and other places

Testimony of Leon Yehuda Klapholtz, born in Tesin, Czechoslovakia, 1922, regarding his experiences in Plaszow, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Dachau and other places Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; escape to Brzesko with his grandfather; escape to Tarnow; escape to family in Krakow; attempt to escape to the Soviet Union with his father and brother via Lezajsk; capture by the Gestapo and arrest; work clearing out apartments of Jews; escape to Lwow; return to Poland, 1940; escape to Wisnicz; deportation to Plaszow with his brother, April, 1941; camp life including labor laying railroad tracks; escape to the Krakow Ghetto with his brother; life in his aunt's house; transfer to a Siemens factory; deportation to Plaszow, autumn 1943; transfer to Czestochowa; labor manufacturing bullets for rifles; receives food from a German engineer; transfer to Buchenwald, January 1945; labor in the mines; marked as a Czech inmate; transfer to Dachau; transfer to Allach by train; liberation by the US Army. Return to Czechoslovakia; aliya to Israel, 1949.