Testimony of Shimon Shimek Iekel, born in Cracow, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and Blechhammer

Testimony of Shimon Shimek Iekel, born in Krakow, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences in the Tarnow Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Gleiwitz and Blechhammer Poor family with a stepmother; run away from home; life as a homeless person in the mob world. Outbreak of the war, 1939; forced labor in exchange for rent; deportation of the Jews to Tarnow; restrictions and curfew; help from local Jews; receives food from a community kitchen; draft of a brother to a labor camp; escape from the camp; escape of his father; forced labor logging trees; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; extermination of relatives in Treblinka; transfer to Gleiwitz; camp life and labor digging pits; death march to Blechhammer; liberation. Marriage; aliya to Israel, 1949.