Testimony of Yisrael Leizerovitz, born in Poddebice, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Ludwigslust

Testimony of Yisrael Leizerovitz, born in Poddebice, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and Ludwigslust Life before the war; membership in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement; move to Lodz, 1935. Outbreak of the war; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto in the Baluty quarter; Lodz Ghetto life including work as a cook; "Sperre", curfew "Aktion"; deportation of children and adults to Chelmno; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to Braunschweig; camp life including labor in a Man factory; humane attitude of the German labor foreman; transfer by train to a Hermann Goering factory; transfer to an aircraft factory carved into a mountain on the border of Belgium; harassment of Jews by the Ukrainian forced laborers; transfer to Ludwigslust by train; hunger; liberation. Life in a former clubhouse of the Hitler-Jugend movement; help from the UNRRA and JDC organizations; typhus illness and hospitalization in a hospital for refugees; move to a DP camp in Bergen-Belsen; meets Jewish Brigade people; life in a "kibbutz" in Buchenwald; discovery that his wife was murdered near Stutthof; aliya in the direction of Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.