Testimony of Chaim Szwarc, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Dzialoszyce Ghetto, Czestochowa, Pinczow Ghetto, Blechhammer, Klettendorf, Faulbrueck and other places

Testimony of Chaim Szwarc, born in Dzialoszyce, Poland, 1920, regarding his experiences in the Dzialoszyce Ghetto, Czestochowa, Pinczow Ghetto, Blechhammer, Klettendorf, Faulbrueck and other places Life before the war. German occupation, September 1939; escape to cities in the vicinity; deportation to Czestochowa; camp life including physical abuse; sanitation labor; transfer to Berlin; life in Berlin including humiliation in the streets; transfer to Tesin; life in Tesin including help from the Czechoslovakian population; transfer to Goerlitz; transfer to Krakow; camp life including release with a group of inmates in exchange for payment by the Jewish community; life in the Pinczow Ghetto including meeting his family; escape to villages in the vicinity during "Aktions"; smuggling food into the ghetto; help from villagers; Judenrat activities; deportation to forced labor; liquidation of the ghetto, summer 1942; escape to the Czestochowa Ghetto; ghetto life including labor repairing railroad tracks; life in hiding places during "Aktions", autumn 1942; Jewish police activities; escape to a forest, winter 1943; insinuates himself into the Zagorze camp; transfer to Blechhammer; transfer to Klettendorf; camp life including labor unloading freight cars; stealing food; transfer to labor digging; help from villagers; transfer to Graeditz; life in Graeditz including labor in a Krupp factory; black market; transfer of healthy inmates to Faulbrueck; life in Faulbrueck including pretending to be healthy; labor in an aluminum factory; transfer to Graeditz with those ill from typhus; life in Graeditz with those who are ill; mutual help among the inmates; transfer to a convalescent home for medical experiments; mental abuse; transfer back to Faulbrueck; life in Faulbrueck including labor digging trenches; transfer to Langenbielau; liberation by the Red Army, May 1945. Life in Reichenbach including physical and mental rehabilitation; displays of antisemitism; aliya to Israel, 1950.