Testimony of Nachum Emanuel Shamir Steiner, born in Topolcany, Slovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Sered, Sachsenhausen and Brandenburg

Testimony of Nachum Emanuel Shamir Steiner, born in Topolcany, Slovakia, 1929, regarding his experiences in Novaky, Sered, Sachsenhausen and Brandenburg Religious family; life before the war; education; the Jewish community. Decrees; displays of antisemitism; detention of his father and uncle; deportation of the family to Novaky; camp life and meets his father in the camp; the Judenrat in Novaky; the Slovak National Uprising, August 1944; death of his uncle; relatives are in hiding; capture by the Germans; deportation to Sered; transfer to Berlin; transfer on foot to Sachsenhausen; camp life and labor in the commander's living quarters; punishment in the camp; disappearance of his father; transfer to various camps in Germany; transfer to Brandenburg; camp life including labor in an aircraft factory and removing bombs; meets his brother; receives parcels from the Red Cross; transfer to a camp on the Swiss border; camp life and eating horse meat; meets a Hungarian Jew and improvisation of putting on Tefillin; liberation by the US Army. Hospitalization; lice; death of his sister and mother; return home via Prague; pogrom in Topolcany; life in aliya training; move to Italy; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers; aliya to Eretz Israel on a plane, 1947; starts a family, 1952.