Testimony of Avraham Goldlist, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Kielce, Buchenwald, Dachau and Bisingen

Testimony of Avraham Goldlist, born in Chmielnik, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Kielce, Buchenwald, Dachau and Bisingen From a liberal religious family; witness' father is a tailor; learns in a "heder" and local Polish school. Expulsion from school, 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; joins Hashomer Hatzair, 1941; visit of Mordechai Anielewicz to his Hashomer Hatzair chapter; concentration of the Jews in the city square, 01 October 1942; deportation of his parents and three brothers to Treblinka; deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life including labor filling shells with explosives; escape to Chmielnik, 01 November 1942; voluntary move to Kielce; life in Kielce including labor digging anti-tank ditches until 1944; transfer to Buchenwald, late 1944; transfer to Dachau; transfer to Bisingen; life in Bisingen including labor mining uranium, 1945; liberation by the US Army. Move to Feldafing; move to Landsberg; camp life including joining Kibbutz Dror; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Moledet", 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; life at Kibbutz Ginosar.