Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places

Testimony of Moshe Monik Yakubovitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto, Majdanek, Budzyn, Mielec and other places Life before the war; witness learns in a "heder" and attends the Tarbut school. German occupation, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing an armband; shearing of [beards of] elderly Jews; deportation to the Warsaw Ghetto; Warsaw Ghetto life including the death of Jews from hunger and their burial in a mass grave; his Bar Mitzvah in the ghetto; activities of the Jewish police; activities of workshops; Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB); concentration of Jews; deportation of Jews to Treblinka; outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, April 1943; finds a hiding place in bunkers; his father is shot; deportation to Majdanek with his family; camp life including death of his family members; transfer to Budzyn; camp life including marching to the place of labor; methods of punishment and abuse by the camp's commander; transfer to Mielec; camp life including labor with aircraft; shaving of hair; transfer to Wieliczka; camp life including labor in a salt mine; hospitalization of inmates in a sick room; transfer to Flossenbuerg; life in Flossenbuerg including marching to the place of labor under the escort of a band; obligation to sing en route to the place of labor; approach of the US Army; transfer in open railroad cars in the direction of Dachau; removal from the railroad cars; transfer on foot; shooting of inmates; life in Regensburg; liberation by the US Army. Life with US Army soldiers; life under the auspices of the Red Cross organization; move to Salzburg DP camp; Salzburg DP camp life including David Ben-Gurion's speech; move to Italy with help from the Jewish Brigade; life in Italy including joining the Beitar movement; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel with Aliya Bet on the "Mordei Hagetaot" ship; life in detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; life in the "Irgun" and in the IDF.