Testimony of Moshe Rutshtein, born in Brzezina, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen

Testimony of Moshe Rutshtein, born in Brzezina, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen Life before the war in Lodz; attends a Polish elementary school; attends a Jewish school; displays of antisemitism; warnings from their Volksdeutsche neighbors; offers of help. German occupation; decrees; detention of his parents; release of his parents with the help of a Volksdeutsche neighbor, a member of the SS; ban on walking on pavements; yellow badge; ban on going to the cinema; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto; establishment of the Jewish police under Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski; drafted to labor; draft of his parents and sisters to labor in different workshops; shortage of food; food stolen by members of the Judenrat; sanctions against smuggling food; "Aktion" against children; sabotage attempts on labor performed for the Germans; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; life in hiding for two months; "Aktion"; transfer with 250 people to Sachsenhausen; labor in the kennels; labor in Henkel aircraft factories; help in food from the German foreman; advance of the Red Army; death march; liberation. Hashomer Hatzair activities; aliya to Israel, 1948.