Testimony of Arie Kahana, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Wloclawek, the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow camp, Mauthausen and other places

Testimony of Arie Kahana, born in Wloclawek, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Wloclawek, the Tarnow Ghetto, Plaszow camp, Mauthausen and other places Life before the war; Zionist traditional family; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Outbreak of the war, 1939; deportation to Tarnow, 1943; life in Tarnow; life with uncles as leather workers in a Polish company; company work for Germans; sealing of the ghetto; ghetto life; forced labor outside the ghetto; "Aktion" and deportation of the family to extermination; deportation with two uncles to Plaszow, 1943; camp life; transfer to forced labor; transfer to Mathausen, August 1944; camp life; transfer to Melk; camp life; labor in tunnels transferring chisels for sharpening; transfer to Ebensee, March 1945; camp life; liberation by the US Army, May 1945. Hospitalization; return to Poland; life in aliya training; aliya to Israel, 1948; drafted to the IDF, 1949.