Testimony of Shlomo Briczkowski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Heinkel and on a death march

Testimony of Shlomo Stefan Briczkowski, born in Lodz, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Heinkel and on a death march The witness' father is a dental technician; attends a private school for the children of independent professionally skilled workers. German occupation; immediate expulsion from their house; living quarters within the area of the future ghetto; sealing of the ghetto, May 1940; requests of Jews to hide diamonds and gold in their teeth; interrogation of his father by the Gestapo after he is informed on; throwing of babies during an "Aktion" (The Sperre), 1942; work in a weapons parts factory; deportation of his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944; loss of his parents; selection among the youth; transfer to a construction workers' school; rape of women in Block 23; transfer to Sachsenhausen, November 1944; labor feeding the guard dogs; selection of professionally skilled workers; transfer to the Heinkel Werke camp; manufacture of aircraft parts; air-raids on the camp; death march to the Baltic Sea, late April 1945; abandonment by the Germans near Schwerin, May 1945. Move to the British Zone; life in Blankenese; legal aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947; absorption in Kibbutz Amiad, 1948.