Testimony of Zvi Henrik Hersh Kaliszer, born in Plock, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Plock, assumes a false identity in Berlin, the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding in a village and in the Armia Ludowa (AL) underground

Testimony of Zvi Henrik Hersh Kaliszer, born in Plock, Poland, 1928, regarding his experiences as a child in Plock, assumes a false identity in Berlin, the Warsaw Ghetto, in hiding in a village and in the Armia Ludowa (AL) underground Life before the war; traditional family; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape with the family to Warsaw; life in Warsaw; obtains food during air-raids; entrustment to a Christian children's institution by his mother; life in the institution with an assumed non-Jewish Polish identity; drafted to the Hitler-Jugend and transfer to Berlin; release due to his young age; return to Warsaw; joins children from the ghetto and smuggles food into the ghetto; ghetto life; escape from the ghetto under bullet fire; life outside the ghetto including sleeping in cellars; steals bags from Gestapo officers and sells them; life in villages as a shepherd; work for a Polish farmer and joins the AL underground with the help of a Pole; underground activities including cutting telephone lines; capture by the Germans; interrogation under torture; escape and convalescence at a Polish farmer’s; liberation by the Red Army. Move to a Red Cross hospital; return to Warsaw; life in Warsaw; joins Beitar; move to Germany; move to France; aliya attempt, 1948; detention in Cyprus; aliya; drafted to the Irgun and bomb-disposal activities.