Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march

Testimony of Zwi Hershel Zeligman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Czestochowa, Buchenwald, Sonnenberg and on a death march Family background; Shabbat and religious holidays; youth movements and synagogues in the community; assistance to the needy; Bnei Akiva activities; neighborly relations with the Volksdeutsche. German occupation of Lodz; being snatched up for forced labor; yellow badge; desecration of the synagogue; sealing of the ghetto, late April 1940; murder of his brother in Poznan; ghetto life; Judenrat actvities and Rumkowski; labor in the Resort (workshop); the Sperre, ["Aktion" against children, the sick and the elderly], September 1942; deportation of people to Chelmno; Jewish Police activities; death from starvation and typhus; religious life in the ghetto; transfer to Czestochowa; life in the camp; forced labor; deportation to Buchenwald by train supervised by SS Police; the punishments on the train; humiliation of the inmates; roll calls (Appel); Yom Kippur prayers in the camp; transfer to Sonnenberg; forced labor; Pesach Seder night; death march towards the Sudetenland; shooting at the marchers; meeting Jewish US Army soldiers; arrival at Prague, Czechoslovakia; liberation, May 1945. Return to Lodz via Katowice; meeting with JDC men; information regarding murder of his parents in Auschwitz; life after the war; aliya to Israel, 1950.