Testimony of Jakob Kuba Zuckerman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa and Israel

Testimony of Jakob Kuba Zuckerman, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto, Skarzysko Kamienna, Czestochowa and Israel His childhood with his parents; outbreak of the economic crisis, 1929; pogroms on the streets; move to the Radogoszcz area. German Army occupation of Lodz, September 1939; life under German occupation including bans and restrictions; kidnapping of his father, February 1940; move to his grandmother's home in the Lodz Ghetto; sealing of the Lodz Ghetto, April 1940; Lodz Ghetto life including the allotment of food, labor in a workshop producing boots for the German Army, hunger, and acts of abuse; curfew (Sperre) "Aktion" against children, September 1942; activities of the Jewish police; publication of announcements for enlistment to labor in Germany; assembly in the Umschlagplatz, the railroad station and deportation to camps; each family on the transport receives wooden shoes, a loaf of bread, a postcard and five DM (Deutsch Marks); transfer in a freight train to Skarzysko Kamienna, including acts of abuse by Ukrainians; life in a HASAG ammunitions factory including hunger; receives knowledge regarding the execution of his father by hanging; approach of the army front; transfer to Czestochowa along with the equipment; receives knowledge regarding the murder of Jews; screening of the film about the murder of Polish officers in the Katyn forest; the Germans flee; liberation by the Red Army. Move back to Lodz; joins Gordonia; move with Bericha in the direction of Eretz Israel, 1947; wanderings in Europe; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Kaf Tet Benovember" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949; life in Israel.