Testimony of Gershon Katzir Kachmarek, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bydgoszcz, Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and a death march

Testimony of Gershon Katzir Kachmarek, born in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in Bydgoszcz, Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald and a death march Childhood in Bydgoszcz. Outbreak of the war; move to Lodz, December 1939; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; education; labor in workshops; hunger; deportation to Auschwitz, August 1944; labor at a farm near Auschwitz; death march to Buchenwald, January 1945; liberation, 11 April 1945. Move to France; move to relatives in Bratislava; aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.