Chaim Menachem Teichtal, born in 1922 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia, about escaping to Belgium and thence to France; internment in various camps including Saint Cyprien, and escaping

Family life; community; studies; personality of the witness's father, Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal; Slovakia given autonomy in October 1938; Hlinka's Slovak People's Party; anti-Jewish decrees and the yellow-star rule; escaping to Belgium via Vienna and Munich; a stay in Antwerp; Germans enter Belgium in May 1940; escaping to France aboard a refugee train; assistance from the Red Cross; reaching southern France; interned in various camps, including Saint Cyprien; religious life and starvation in the camp; escaping to Marseilles with two brothers after a stay in Toulouse; manhunt in the streets of Toulouse; registering as a Jew; encountering Rabbi Schneerson; resistance activity in counseling approx. 80 children whose parents were murdered and who were being brought up in Christian homes; assistance to orphans from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; witness's activity in a Judenrat in France; father hides in the loft of a synagogue and is murdered; relatives murdered in Auschwitz; marrying in France; immigration to Israel in 1949; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Israel.