Testimony of Moshe Brem, born in 1937 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, about his experiences as a boy in the Piotrków Trybunalski ghetto and in the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen camps during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent family; war breaks out; German occupation ensues in 1939; deportation to the ghetto; sewing for the Germans; receiving information about dates of Aktionen and slipping out of the ghetto along with his mother; father inducted into the Polish Army; father taken prisoner by the Red Army; joins Anders's Army; melts down jewelry and gold coins into ingots and distributes them to family members via grandfather; taken with mother by train to Ravensbrück; life in the camp under harsh conditions; hiding on the upper bunk while mother works; hunger and cold; women prisoners executed after attempting to escape; transferred to Bergen-Belsen in spring 1943; life in the camp; epidemic typhus and dysentery break out; Jews interned in separate camp with Roma; mass mortality; supplies of food and drink halted in the last two weeks in the camp; liberation by British forces; the German sector of the camp becomes a displacd persons camp; life in the DP camp until 1947; immigration to Eretz Israel; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.