Testimony of Shmuel Gulan Goldberg, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ebensee, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony of Shmuel Gulan Goldberg, born in Pruzana, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Pruzana Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ebensee, Mauthausen and other places Life before the war; member of the General Zionists party. Soviet occupation, September 1939; closure of the Jewish schools; German occupation, June 1941; confiscation of monies and valuables; burial of Torah scrolls in cemeteries; establishment of the Judenrat; deportation to the Pruzana Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to the ghetto of Jews from Bialystok and the vicinity; underground activities; murder of Jews in killing pits; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; transfer in a march to Birkenau; camp life; selection and murder of the family; receives help from a non-Jewish inmate; transfer to Mauthausen; transfer to Ebensee; camp life; transfer in marchs to labor; receives floggings; liberation in Ebensee, May 1945. Death of people from overeating and their burial in mass graves; life in Feldafing DP camp; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.