Mordekhai Visvel

Testimony of Mordechai Visvel, born in Staszow, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Staszow Ghetto, Skarzysko Kamienna, Buchenwald, Schlieben and other places Only child of a single mother; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school. German occupation; escape to a village; return to Staszow; deportation to the Staszow Ghetto; deportation to Skarzysko Kamienna; camp life including labor at the Werk A factory; murder of his mother; transfer to Buchenwald; life in the tent camp; transfer to Schlieben; transfer to Flossenbuerg; transfer to Gusen; transfer to Mauthausen; liberation by the Allied forces, 1945. Meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; move to Italy; aliya to Eretz Israel, January 1946; absorption on Kibbutz Ramat Hakovesh; enlists in the Palmach; marriage.