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Testimony of Eliezer Lolek Kirszenbojm, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, HASAG Pelzery and HASAG Varta

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Testimony of Eliezer Lolek Kirszenbojm, born in Czestochowa, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto, HASAG Pelzery and HASAG Varta Life before the war; increase in antisemitism from 1935. German occupation, September 1939; murder of 300 town residents; night curfew; kidnappings on the streets to forced labor; burning of the Great Synagogue, late 1939; labor digging ditches, winter 1940; holiday at home; detention for not returning to labor; obtains forged sick documents and release from prison; transfer to labor constructing an airfield; deportation to the Czestochowa Ghetto, April 1941; arrival of Jews from Lodz to the family home which was within the ghetto area; ghetto life including food smuggling; the Judenrat; liquidation of the large ghetto, September 1942; four large "Aktions"; deportation with his family in the "Aktion" at the end of Succot (October); rescue by a German Air Force engineer; return to labor as an essential Air Force laborer; murder of his family in Treblinka; transfer to the small ghetto; activities in the ghetto underground; smuggling ammunition from the labor place to inside the ghetto; murder of 300 people in the ghetto on the eve of Purim (18 February 1943); liquidation of the small ghetto, December 1943; blowing up of buildings in which members of the underground lived; deportation to HASAG Pelzery; camp life including labor in an ammunitions factory; establishment of a Jewish football team by the Germans; transfer to HASAG Varta, February 1944; camp life including preparing knives in the factory and selling them in exchange for bread; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Wanderings in Poland and Germany; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
5749968
First Name
Eliezer
Lolek
Last Name
Kirshenboim
Kirszenbojm
Date of Birth
26/11/1923
Place of Birth
Czestochowa, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
12871
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
25/07/06
Date of Creation - latest
25/07/06
Name of Submitter
קירשנבוים אליעזר לולק
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
36
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection