Testimony of Shmuel Sami Yom Tov Indov, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Buna and other places

Testimony of Shmuel Sami Yom Tov Indov, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Thessaloniki Ghetto, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Buna and other places Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family; death of his parents in 1935; Beitar activities. German occupation, 01 April 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; concentration and registration of the youth in Liberty Square, summer 1942; deportation to forced labor in a train factory; deportation to the Thessaloniki Ghetto, 1942; unsuccessful attempt to find a hiding place at a non-Jewish female neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz, April 1943; camp life including separation from his sisters and nephew; transfer to Birkenau with his brother; camp life including labor in preparation of construction of the crematorium; transfer to Buna camp; evacuation of the camp, 27 January 1945; transfer in a death march to Gleiwitz; transfer via train in open train cars to Buchenwald; life on the train including death of inmates; camp life in quarantine; labor in metalwork; joins a group of French inmates; life with a assumed French identity with the name Sami Into; liberation by the US Army, 11 April 1945. Return to Greece; life in Greece including marriage; aliya to Israel, 1960.