Testimony of Reuven Reuben Naier Naor, born in Niemce, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Wolbrom Ghetto, Rozwadow, Stalowa Wola, Plaszow and other places

Testimony of Reuven Reuben Naier Naor, born in Niemce, Poland, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Wolbrom Ghetto, Rozwadow, Stalowa Wola, Plaszow and other places From a religious Zionist family; childhood in Wolbrom; learns in a "heder", a Polish school, and an ORT school in Piotrkow; Beitar activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; unsuccessful attempt to escape to the East; death of the witness' sick father; deportation to the Wolbrom Ghetto; ghetto life including labor in the mail; receives a pass to go out of the ghetto and establishment of contacts with Poles; help to Jews in sending mail and packages to other cities; voluntary transfer to Rozwadow, following the deportation of his mother and two brothers, autumn 1942; camp life; transfer to Stalowa Wola; camp life including labor in a weapons factory until spring 1944; transfer to Plaszow by train; transfer to Gross-Rosen; transfer to Goerlitz; camp life including labor on a lathe in a weapons factory; sabotage of the factory's products; death march; return to Goerlitz; pneumonia and hospitalization; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Poland; move to Germany; enlists in the Irgun; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Altalena"; deportation by the British; second aliya, 1948; military service in the IDF; witness at trial of the Rozwadow commandant in Germany.