Testimony of David Mandelbaum, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Johannsdorf O.S., Brande, Dyhernfurth and other camps

Testimony of David Mandelbaum, born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Auschwitz, Johannsdorf O.S., Brande, Dyhernfurth and other camps From a traditional family; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni movement. Escape to Dzialoszyce with his family, 30 August 1939; outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939; return to Sosnowiec with his mother and sister; meets with friends and counselors from Hanoar Hatzioni; yellow badge; forced labor; kidnapped on the street and transfer to the outskirts of the city; deportation to Auschwitz; camp life including labor in renovations and construction; correspondence with his family; transfer to Johannsdorf O.S.; camp life including labor paving a road to Germany; dysentery and quarantine in Gross Paniow; transfer to Tarnowskie Gory; camp life including labor in a steel factory; visit home with help from a camp guard; transfer to Brande; transfer to Dyhernfurth; camp life, late 1943; transfer to Wiesau; camp life with Jewish inmates from Hungary and the Netherlands; labor building and tiling; arrival of his father to the camp; helps his ailing father; flogged for stealing potatoes; selection and his father's disappearance; help from a Jewish physician; transfer to Gross-Rosen, spring 1944; camp life including labor digging foundations for buildings; transfer to Bunzlau; camp life including labor in an aircraft parts factory; death march, late 1944; escape from the convoy at Goerlitz; in hiding under a wooden floor in a hut; liberation by the Red Army, February 1945. Return home; aliya to Eretz Israel via Slovakia, Hungary, Italy and France as a Bericha activist on the ship, "Tel Chai", 1946.