Testimony of Zeev Wolf Galperin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Birkenau and other places

Testimony of Zeev Wolf Galperin, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Auschwitz, Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Birkenau and other places Life before the war; well-to-do traditional family; attends a Jewish school. Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of property; German-Soviet war, 1941; unsuccessful escape attempt; a Lithuanian neighbor takes over their home; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto, August 1940; ghetto life in the sport hall in school; "Aktion"; receives food; labor with his father in a factory; the ghetto becomes a camp; life in Sanciai camp; evacuation of the camp, summer 1944; deportation to Landsberg; transfer to Dachau; camp life including sneaking to his younger brother; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life with a group of children in quarantine; transfer back to Dachau; transfer to Sachsenhausen; camp life including rescue from selection with the help of a German inmate; life with a group of non-Jewish inmates; life in Lieberose camp; labor in a factory; destruction of the factory after US Army air-raids; transfer to Sachsenhausen as a non-Jew; transfer in a death march; liberation, 02 May 1945. Return to Lithuania; life in Lithuania including a reunion with family members; aliya to Israel, 1990.