Testimony of Zvi Hershel Kanar, born in Skalbmierz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skalbmierz, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp and other places

Testimony of Zvi Hershel Kanar, born in Skalbmierz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Skalbmierz, the Krakow Ghetto, Plaszow, the Skarzysko-Kamienna camp and other places Life before the war; from a well-to do family. German occupation, 1939; imposition of restrictions on the Jews; murder of Jews; deportation to forced labor, 1940; sealing of the ghetto and escape to the fields; hiding money; escape back to the Skalbmierz Ghetto, September 1942; deportation to the Krakow Ghetto; ghetto life; bribing a German for entry to labor in the Plaszow camp; living quarters with Miller, the Jewish policeman; labor for the Simmens Mayer Companies; liquidation of the ghetto, 14 March 1943; deportation to Skarzysko-Kamienna; camp life in "Werk C"; Yetze Mar Kov as head of the "Werk"; labor in the women's hall packing bullets; selections carried out by Dr. Host; transfer to the Czestochowa camp; transfer to Buchenwald, winter 1945; life in Buchenwald in the children's barracks; murder of his father; labor in a mine; labor in an aircraft parts factory; help from a German; transfer by death march; liberation. Move to Katowice; life in Katowice; reunion with two sisters; move to Sosnowiec; move to Lodz; move to Judenburg; move to Salvino; move to southern Italy; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Katriel Yaffe" with Jews from Romania, summer 1946; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.