Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp, Bergen-Belsen and his liberation on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz

Testimony of Yozef Bramson, born in Franeker, the Netherlands, 1934, regarding his experiences in the Westerbork camp, the Vught camp, the Barneveld camp and Bergen-Belsen, and his liberation while on "The Lost Train" in Troebitz Immediate family; his parent's professions; way of life at home; Shabbatot and religious holidays; setting up of a community kibbutz training facility by his father; move to Wildervank; attends a Jewish school. Anti-Jewish legislation and yellow badge; occupation of the Netherlands, May 1940; plan to make aliya to Eretz Israel that is not realized; his father's library and its being entrusted to the priest for safekeeping; deportation of the family to Westerbork by the Dutch police; camp life; transfer to the Vught camp; separation of the children from the parents; religious life in the camps; underground activities of a relative who is caught and murdered; transfer back to Westerbork and from there to Barneveld; Jewish police activity in the camp; conditions in Barneveld; return to Westerbork by truck; deportation of Jews to extermination camps including Auschwitz and Sobibor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; separation of his father from the family; receiving Red Cross parcels; eating non-kosher food with permission from Dutch rabbis; typhus and hunger in the camp; death of his mother from starvation; arranging of an orphanage in the camp by Rabbi Yehoshua Birnbaum and activities there; his father's activities teaching Torah; getting onto a train and setting out in the direction of Terezin; disappearance of the train and its continuous journey; deaths of people on the train from starvation and typhus; liberation of the Lost Train [aka Lost Transport] in Troebitz by the Red Army, 23 April 1945. Burial of those who perished in a mass grave; return home via Amsterdam; aliya to Israel, 1950.