Testimony of Hertz Hirshberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow; Gross-Rosen and Brnenec

Testimony of Hertz Hirshberg, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow; Gross-Rosen and Brnenec Life before the war; education. German occupation, September 1939; restrictions on Jews including yellow badge; confiscation of valuables; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life including Judenrat activities and Jewish police; Bar Mitzvah; deportation of the Jews to Auschwitz; transfer to Belzec; transfer to Plaszow; camp life; labor crushing gravestones in the Jewish cemetery; labor paving roads; smuggling food into camp; makes contact with Oskar Schindler; transfer to Gross-Rosen as part of Schindler's list; transfer to Brnenec; camp life; knowledge concerning the circumstances of his father's death in Auschwitz; liberation. Return to his family home and finding items and money in the cellar; Bericha activities with Beitar; Aliya Bet activities; move to Milan and reunion with his brother; aliya attempt on the ship, "Mordei Hagetaot"; detention in Cyprus; camp life; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.