Testimony of Dario Levi, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding his experiences in Katarini camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, clearing rubble from the former Warsaw Ghetto, and in a Polish village while using a false identity

Testimony of Dario Levi, born in Thessaloniki, Greece, 1923, regarding his experiences in Katarini camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, clearing rubble from the former Warsaw Ghetto, and in a Polish village while using a false identity His childhood in Thessaloniki in a religious-Zionist home; attends the Alliance Jewish school. German occupation, April 1941; concentration of the Jewish men in Plateia Eleftheria square; selection; deportation to Katarini camp; labor paving roads; return to Thessaloniki; yellow badge; restrictions on movement; work for a Jewish greengrocer; deportation to Auschwitz by train; selection and transfer to Birkenau; receives number 113134 on his arm; camp life in block number 27; labor digging trenches; selection; transfer with Greek inmates to Warsaw on a freight train, 1943; labor clearing rubble from the former Warsaw Ghetto; receives money from an UNRRA man; hanging of Shaul Senor as punishment for an escape attempt; details about the Polish partisans in the ghetto; combat with the German Army; explosion of a German tank that was left in the ghetto; burial of the dead partisans; escape to Warsaw via the sewers; work in a village while using a false identity; liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. Return home; aliya training in Athens; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Haviva Reich" ship, 1946; capture by the British Army; detention in Atlit; aliya; life in Israel.