Testimony of Anszel Sznajder, born in 1928 in Choroszcz, about his experiences in Choroszcz, the Białystok ghetto, and Auschwitz-Birkenau

Testimony of Anszel Sznajder, born in 1928 in Choroszcz, about his experiences in Choroszcz, the Białystok ghetto, and Auschwitz-Birkenau Soviet rule in 1939; German occupation ensues in June 1941; father arrested; father murdered; Jews murdered in pits in surrounding forests; abduction of children for forced labor; Aktion; mother and sister murdered in November 1942; hiding with older brothers in a warehouse; aided by non-Jews while hiding in a field; escaping to the Białystok ghetto in January 1943; sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in February 1943; posing as older than he was in a selection; selections; working with his brother in a laundry facility; hiding in Silesia; liberated by Red Army forces; taken to Soviet army camps; brother murdered aboard a train by Polish anti-Semites in 1946; active in rescue of children in Białystok under the Dror movement; starting life over; immigration to Israel in 1956; adjustment to life in Israel.