Testimony of Moshe Liberman, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, labor battalions, Auschwitz, Gusen and on a death march to Gunskirchen

Testimony of Moshe Liberman, born in Baia Mare, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in the Baia Mare Ghetto, labor battalions, Auschwitz, Gusen and on a death march to Gunskirchen Childhood; from a religious, Zionist family with eight children; studies in a "heder" and attendance in Romanian, Hungarian and vocational schools. Outbreak of the war; information regarding the fate of the Jews and disbelief; Hungarian occupation, 1938; draft to forced labor paving roads, 1942-1943; deportation to the Baia Mare Ghetto in a brick factory; murder of the intelligentsia and the wealthy members of the community; robbery of Jewish property; repeated escape attempts; punishment by beatings and hangings; sending food to people in the ghetto by a Hungarian Army officer (later recognized as a Righteous Among Nations) deportation to Auschwitz; murder of his father, his mother and his four younger siblings; transfer to Gusen, Austria, and from there to Gusen II, for 11 months; forced labor; appointed as the personal guard of the Kapo (criminal [?]); food benefits; approach of the the Allied forces; death march to Gunskirchen; cannibalism; approach of the US Army; liberation. Acts of revenge against the Kapo; return to Romania; reunion with his family; joining Beitar aliya training; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.