Testimony of Joseph Krakauer, born in 1930 in Berlin, about his experiences as a boy in Berlin, deportation to Poland in 1938, and life in ghettos and hideouts in Poland until the liberation

Life before the war; offspring of a religious family; attends a Jewish elementary school; antisemitism; deportation to Poland before Kristallnacht in 1938; German occupation ensues in 1939; restrictions imposed on Jews, including the yellow star edict; dispossession; father arrested and murdered in 1940; deported to the Chrzanów ghetto; mother and brother sent to Auschwitz and perish; liquidation of the ghetto and finding a hideout; escaping to the Modrzejów ghetto in early 1943; liquidation of ...