Testimony of Aizik Berkenstat, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, HASAG, Buchewald, Nordhausen, Rottleberode and a death march

Testimony of Aizik Berkenstat, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, HASAG, Buchewald, Nordhausen, Rottleberode and a death march Traditional family; activities of his parents in the Bund party; aliya of his uncle to Eretz Israel, 1935. German occupation including detention in prison and the yellow badge; publication of the Bund's underground newspaper; arrest of his parents and sister; release of his mother; deportation of his father to Auschwitz; death of his father; closure of the Czestochowa Ghetto; transfer to the small ghetto after deportation of Jews to Treblinka; life in the small ghetto; meets his future wife; deportation to HASAG; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to Nordhausen; transfer to Rottleberode; death march to Oranienburg; liberation by the Red Army. Marriage in Germany, 1946; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.