Testimony of Eliakim Lenger, born in Wadowice, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, Krakow, Gross-Rosen, Litomerice and other places

Testimony of Eliakim Lenger, born in Wadowice, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in Bochnia, Krakow, Gross-Rosen, Litomerice and other places Life before the war; ultra-Orthodox family; attends a "heder" and a Polish elementary school; escape to Czeckoslovakia during World War 1; return to Poland; activities in Hapoal Hamizrachi; receives information on the events in Germany since the Nazi rise to power; receives information on the deportation of family members to Poland; drafted to the Polish Army; escape of his fiance to the Soviet Union. Escape to Bochnia; transfer to a prison in Krakow by the Germans; release; deportation to a camp; camp life as a Volksdeutsche; release; escape to Wadowice; life in Wadowice; meets with the family; murder of Jews from Wadowice; deportation to Germany; life in camps including forced labor; life in Gross-Rosen; transfer to Litomerice; transfer to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt; typhus. Hospitalization; return to Wadowice; life in Wadowice; move to Furth; life in a DP camp; reunion with his wife; aliya on the ship "Tampa", 1949.