Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more

Testimony of Ovadia Pitzton, born in 1926 in Thessaoloniki, Greece, about his experiences in the Thessaloniki ghetto and in the Auschwitz, Landsberg, and Dachau camps, and more Life before the war; antisemitism among the youth; German occupation begins in April 1941; trade relations with the Germans; issue of order to report to Freedom Square in 1942; the yellow star edict; food rationing; sealing off the Baron Hirsch residential area as a ghetto; receiving notice about impending deportation to Poland and a demand to convert propert into Polish złoty; life in Transport 109, the first transport to Auschwitz; life in the camp; receiving serial number 109681; put to use as an interpreter; selection; receiving a beating; working at the Beklaidung Verksaft pland in the "Kanada camp"; placement in the infirmary; receiving aid from a Czech doctor; sent back to work; transferred to Warsaw; working there arranging blocks; harvesting apples; the Red Army approaches; transferred by train to Dachau; life in the camp together with opponents of the regime; transfer to Camp 7 at Landsberg; working at burial of those who perished; typhus; back to Dachau; death march; the Germans flee; liberation by American forces; hospitalization; transfer to the Feldafing camp; encountering Jewish Brigade soldiers en route to Eretz Israel; training at Kibbutz Dror Kadima in the Santa Maria di Bagni displaced persons camp; immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Josiah Wedgwood in 1946; detention in the Atlit camp for a month; released.