Testimony of David Teichholtz, born in Slomniki, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Plaszow, Kielce, Ostrowiec, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz and other places

Testimony of David Teichholtz, born in Slomniki, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences in Plaszow, Kielce, Ostrowiec, Auschwitz, Gleiwitz and other places Life before the war; education; his brother’s activities in Beitar. Outbreak of the war, 1939; illness of his father; German occupation; restrictions on the Jews including the yellow badge; draft of men to forced labor including his brothers; shearing beards of Jews by the SS; Judenrat activities; deportation of his brother to the Gestapo headquarters in Krakow; escape of his brother; deportation of the Jews to an open area; guarding of the Jews by the Jewish police and the Polish police; escape and in hiding in a Polish house; deportation of the Jews to Belzec; capture by Jewish and Polish policemen; deportation to prison; deportation to Plaszow; camp life including escape attempts; destruction of the Jewish cemetery; hospitalization with pneumonia; transfer to Kielce; transfer to Ostrowiec; camp life including trying to maintain a religious life; transfer to Auschwitz; camp life; transfer to Jaworzno; transfer to Neudachs; camp life including labor in a coal mine; death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Buchenwald; camp life; liberation, April 1945. Move to Switzerland; life in Switzerland; move to France; aliya to Israel, 1949.