Testimony of Israel Aizner, born in Warta, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Warta, Hannsdorf, Oppeln, the Lodz Ghetto, Luisenheim and other places

Testimony of Israel Aizner, born in Warta, Poland, 1924, regarding his experiences in Warta, Hannsdorf, Oppeln, the Lodz Ghetto, Luisenheim and other places His childhood in a religious-Zionist family; activities in Hanoar Hatzioni; learns in a "heder" and attends a public school. Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape from home; move back [to Warta]; detention by Germans, along with his father, while en route [back] home; deportation to a POW camp in Hannsdorf, with a group of men; transfer as a minor to a camp for women and children; evacuation of the camp, a short time later; transfer to a prison in Oppeln; prison life, until April 1940; transfer to the Lodz Ghetto, with help from a local Jewish lawyer; Lodz ghetto life in the context of a group from the movement; move back [to Warta], November 1940; Warta Ghetto life including evasion of transfer to labor; capture in the ghetto, May 1942; transfer to Luisenheim camp; camp life including labor digging, for approximately two months; transfer back to the Warta Ghetto; sudden "Aktion", 24 August 1942; [deportation of] his mother and his siblings; transfer to the Lodz Ghetto, with a group of young people; escape to an open field during the "Sperre", curfew "Aktion"; labor in a bath house; in hiding during the receipt of orders to appear before the authorities; capture, approximately 10 days later; deportation to Czestochowa; life in Czestochowa including labor constructing a factory; transfer to Buchenwald, August 1944; transfer to Sonnenberg, approximately two weeks later; camp life including labor in a factory; evacuation [of the camp], 01 April 1945; death march; liberation by the US Army, 07 May 1945. Move back to Poland; aliya to Eretz Israel; life in Israel including service in the police.