Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc.

Testimony of Shmuel Berkovitz, born in 1925 in Sangeorgiul De Padure, Romania, about his experiences in Sangeorgiul De Padure, the Targu Mures ghetto, the Gleiwitz and Buna Monowitz camps, etc. Son of a Religious Zionist family; antisemitism; Hungary re-annexes the area in 1939; persecution of Zionists and Communists; inducted into labor battalions; German occupation ensues in March 1944; deportation to the Targu Mures ghetto; life in a brick factory, dispossession; deportation to Auschwitz several weeks later; transfer to Buna Monowitz; life in the camp; assigned to forced labor; hunger; Yom Kippur; suicides; faith; problems of daily existence; death-marched to Gleiwitz in January 1945; selection and transport in open railroad cars without food and water; reaching Dora Mittelbau approx. ten days later; severe mortality en route; transfer to Nordhausen; life in the camp without work; enduring abuse; escaping during bombardment; escaping to another camp in the area; escaping during a bombardment; arrested in a forest near Wittstock; liberation by Red Army forces on May 5, 1945; life after the war; immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947; adjusting to life in Israel and starting over.