Testimony of Avraham Gavner, born in 1921 in Lodz, about his experiences in the Lodz ghetto and in the Auschwitz and Ebensee camps during the war

Life before the war; life as a Gerrer Hasid and an ordained rabbi; war breaks out; family-owned enterprises are confiscated; sidelocks forcibly shorn; cleaning streets; deportation to the Lodz ghetto; father dies of exhaustion; mother and five siblings deported in Aktionen; working at a shop for disassembly of deported Jews' shoes; ghetto liquidated in August 1944; witness depoted to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and assignment to labor in November 1944; digging ditches for telephone lines; l...