Testimony of Kalman Checinski, born in Plawno, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and a HASAG weapons factory

Testimony of Kalman Checinski, born in Plawno, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Czestochowa Ghetto and a HASAG weapons factory Life in Czestochowa before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation with his family to the Czestochowa Ghetto, September 1939; ghetto life including labor on railroad tracks; liquidation of the ghetto, 1942; deportation to labor in a HASAG weapons factory; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move to Hannover; search for relatives; move to Zeilsheim; life in a refugee camp; move to the Bergen-Belsen DP camp; move to Essen, 1948; contact with the Jewish community; enlisted by Haganah representatives; preparation in France for aliya to Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Hatikvah", 1948.