Testimony of Yekhezkel Tzukert, born in 1929 in Warsaw, about his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto and in camps in Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia during the war

Life before the war; offspring of an affluent traditional Zionist family; antisemitic manifestations before the war; attends a cheder and a Jewish government school; encounters Jewish refugees from Germany in 1938; war breaks out; ghettoization; studies in the underground until 1942; mutual assistance; epidemic typhus; placed in a Jewish hospital; sister and younger brother die; parents and remaining brother sent to Treblinka; adopted by Szmul Wajsman; smuggling food into the ghetto; arrested by Jewish police and sent to Majdanek; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; physical abuse; cases of suicide; transferred to an armaments plant for manufacture of shells in Skarzysko; murder in gas vans; sent to Buchenwald; political prisoners conduct acts of revenge in the camp; works in an armaments plant; sent to Theresienstadt; intention of murdering prisoners defeated by Red Army forces; back to Poland; joins a "kibbutz"; moves to Germany; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1946; deportation to Cyprus; immigration to Eretz Israel; rehabilitation and adjustment to life in Eretz Israel.