Testimony of Leib Zatel Braverman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places

Testimony of Leib Zatel Braverman, born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1929, regarding his experiences in the Kaunas Ghetto, Landsberg, Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau and other places Life in Kaunas before the war; secular family; attends a Jewish school. Soviet occupation; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, summer 1941; deportation to the Kaunas Ghetto; Kaunas Ghetto life including the birth of his brother, early 1942; labor of Jews in the Kaunas Ghetto in an air-field in place of his mother in exchange for payment; steals food from well-to-do Jews; reads in the attic; labor in Sanciai sorting shoes, late 1943; transfer to Landsberg, summer 1944; life in Landsberg; transfer to Dachau with a group of children; life in Dachau; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; camp life including contact with a member of the French underground; transfer of weapons and food for the underground; rescue of a friend in Slovakia; his birthday at 16 years old, 16 January 1945; receives extra food from the underground; transfer by train and a death march, 18 January 1945; air-raids on the train; transfer to Mauthausen, 22 January 1945; camp life without activity; death march to Gunskirchen, March 1945; camp life in a forest without food; liberation. Return to Lithuania, December 1945; life in Lithuania including reunion with his mother; aliya to Israel, 1973.