Testimony of Arie Leib Goldring, born in Piotrkow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, Czestochowa and Buchenwald

Testimony of Arie Leib Goldring, born in Piotrkow, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Piotrkow Ghetto, Czestochowa and Buchenwald Life in Piotrkow before the war; well-to-do, traditional family; his father is a merchant; witness learns in a "heder" and attends a Polish school. Air-raids on Piotrkow and Jews escape; deportation to the Piotrkow Ghetto; Piotrkow Ghetto life including the ban on the employment of Jews by Poles; deportation of his father to forced labor laying railroad tracks; flogging of his mother due to the smuggle of food; transfer of his mother to the prison; death of his mother; deportation of Jews from the area to the ghetto; life with much overcrowding; transfer to labor in a glass factory; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation of his father and brother to Treblinka; labor in a sawmill producing barracks for the German Army; approach of the Red Army; transfer to Czestochowa; camp life including labor in a weapons factory; transfer to Buchenwald; air-raids on Buchenwald by the Allied forces; death march; liberation by the US Army. Move to a children's home in France; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.