Testimony of Yitzhak Tzenki Ben Zvi, born in Wohyn, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Miedzyrzec Ghetto, Auschwitz, Plaszow and other places

Testimony of Yitzhak Ben Zvi, born in Wohyn, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Miedzyrzec Ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Plaszow and other places Life before the war; young people prepare themselves for defense against antisemitic mobs. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; burning of the family home during air-raids; German occupation; termination of studies; evades the deportation of children and elderly people to Treblinka, summer 1941; Germans break into the family's home, 1943; murder of his father while attempting to defend the family; family escapes to a forest; return home; deportation to the Miedzyrzec Ghetto; ghetto life including typhus and labor removing property from the apartments of deported Jews; smuggles food into the ghetto; in hiding during "Aktions"; deportation to Majdanek, May 1943; camp life; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life including malaria; hospitalization in a hospital for Polish patients; transfer to Majdanek with the group of Poles; camp life including labor as a messenger; transfer to Plaszow; transfer to Wieliczka; camp life including labor in salt mines; receives food from the foreman; transfer to a camp near Linz; camp life including labor in a factory producing tanks; transfer to Ebensee; camp life including meeting inmates exhausted from death marches; labor removing bombed trains; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Acts of revenge against collaborators with the Germans; meets Jewish Brigade soldiers in Linz; joins Youth Aliyah in Italy; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946