Testimony of Yaakov (Yanek) Wilk Sarid, born in Sniatyn, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Krakow, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen, Plaszow, Gusen II, Guenskirchen and a death march

Testimony of Yaakov (Yanek) Wilk Sarid, born in Sniatyn, Poland, 1925, regarding his experiences in Krakow, the Krakow Ghetto, Mauthausen, Plaszow, Gusen II, Guenskirchen and a death march His family background; move to Krakow; community life; education; arrival of refugees from Germany. Outbreak of the war; German occupation; decrees; marking of Jewish businesses as Jewish; draft of Jews to forced labor; closure of Jewish schools; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; death of his father in Belzec; witness' labor for the Judenrat; mass mortality rate; deportation to Plaszow; camp life; transfer by train to Mauthausen; transfer to Gusen II and the conditions en route; medical experiments; death march to Guenskirchen; cannibalism; death of his mother from typhus; liberation by the US Army. Smuggled into Italy by the Jewish Brigade; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945; absorption.