Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps

Testimony of Daniel Herbert Spier, born in Guxhagen, Germany, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Riga Ghetto and in Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps Childhood in the village of Guxhagen; life under the Nazi regime and strengthening of antisemitism, 1933; Kristallnacht, 1938; deportation of his father to Buchenwald and his return, in 1938; deportation of the family to the Riga Ghetto, Latvia, 1941; ghetto life and forced labor of his parents; deportation of the family to labor in the Wehrmacht warehouses, in the Riga area, 1942; deportation to the Kaiserwald labor camp, 1943; being separated from his mother; deportation of his father to a death march, 1943; forced labor in a camp together with his brother; deportation to Stutthof, Poland, 1944; death of his mother on a death march; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; his brother abandoning the camp and leaving for Torun, 1944; incarceration by Poles and Germans (Volkesdeutsche), in a camp in Torun, 1945; liberation by a Russian officer; Move to Bydgoszcz, Poland; move from there to Berlin, Germany, 1945; move to the Zeilsheim DP camp, 1945; return to Kassel, 1945; learns in a Yeshiva in Bad-Nauheim, 1946; emigration to New York, United States, to a Jewish orphanage, 1946; studies and training in the Bachad organization, in New York; aliya to Israel, 1951; absorption.