Testimony of Moshe Reizman, born in Wodzislaw, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Flossenbuerg and other places

Testimony of Moshe Reizman, born in Wodzislaw, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Flossenbuerg and other places Life before the war; attends school until 1939; work and vocational studies until 1939. German occupation; forced labor in Sedziszow sawing lumber until 1942; transfer to Skarzysko Kamienna, 1943; labor loading bombs; transfer to Czestochowa, late 1944; labor as an electrician's assistant; transfer to Buchenwald, January 1945; camp life without forced labor; transfer to Flossenbuerg, February 1945; camp life including labor building railroad tracks; transfer to Mauthausen, March 1945; transfer on a train without food for 17 days; unsuccessful attempt to escape from the train; arrival to Gusen, April 1945; liberation by the US Army in Mauthausen, 05 May 1945. Hospitalization and convalescence; joins an aliya training "kibbutz" of the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus, 1947; marriage in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948.