Testimony of Moshe Litmanowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, in Chelmno, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and more

Testimony of Moshe Litmanowicz, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Chelmno, Auschwitz, Braunschweig and more The immediate family; his parents' occupations; family lifestyle; his father's activities in the General Zionists. Occupation of Lodz; kidnapping of people for forced labor; yellow badge; destruction of synagogues in Lodz; sealing of the ghetto, late April 1940; work in a resort [workshop] ; residence in the ghetto; death of people from typhus and starvation; illness; activities of Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; the Jewish Police in the ghetto; Gypsies in the ghetto; the Sperre and deportation to Chelmno; death of his father and his brother from illnesses; deportation of the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection and separation from his mother; confiscation of valuables; hospitalization and escape from forced labor in the camp; being flogged by a Kapo; transfer to the Braunschweig camp; forced labor; transfer to the Ravensbrueck camp, the Watenstedt camp and the Woebbelin camp; receiving packages from the Red Cross; liberation in Woebbelin, early May 1945. Life in a home for refugees; return to Lodz via Ludwigslust and Poznan; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1957.