Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg

Testimony of Aharon Lencicky, born in Lodz, Poland, 1921, regarding his experiences in Lodz, Bialystok, Ural, Tashkent, Irbith and Hindenburg German Army occupation of Lodz, 1939; life under German occupation including forced labor; travel restrictions and anti-Jewish decrees; escape to Bialystok, December 1939; life in Bialystok under Soviet rule; move to initiated labor in a mine in the Moscow area, 1940; transfer to a labor camp producing bricks in Ural, 1940; release from the camp; move to Tashkent, 1941; outbreak of the war between Germany and the Soviet Union, 1941; transfer with a labor battalion to Irbirth in the Ural area, 1941; end of the war, May 1945. Move back to Lodz, 1945; move with a Gordonia movement settlers' group to Hindenburg DP camp with help from the Bericha organization, 1946; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Theodor Herzl" ship; detention in Cyprus, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.