Testimony of Adolf Shimko, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Auschwitz, Sered, Birkenau and Friedland

Testimony of Adolf Shimko, born in Topolcany, Czechoslovakia, 1926, regarding his experiences in Topolcany, Auschwitz, Sered, Birkenau and Friedland Life before the war; son in a traditional family; father's livelihood from commerce. Deportation to Sered camp, September 1944; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, October 1944; transfer as a carpenter to Friedland, December 1944; camp life including labor logging trees and a lumber shed; liberation by the Red Army, 10 May 1945. Return to Slovakia; the family's possessions are returned to them; nationalization of property by the Soviet authorities; aliya to Israel, 1966.