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Testimony of Avraham Iger, born in 1918 in Radom, Poland, about his experiences in Radom, the Jedlina ghetto, and camps in Poland and Austria, 1939–1945

Testimony
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German occupation ensues in 1939; witness assigned to felling timber as forced laborer; deportation to the Jedlina ghetto in 1941; forced labor in the ghetto; deportation with brother and sister to Pionki ni 1942; life in the camp; working in a gunpowder and munitions plant; transferred to Zwolen in 1942; interned there for severael weeks; sent back to Pionki; taken to Auschwitz in 1944; interned there for several days; sent on to Sosnowiec Srodula in 1944; life in the camp; working in an armaments plant; death march to Mauthausen in January 1945; transferred to Gunskirchen; interned there until liberated by American forces in 1945; moves to Salzburg in 1945; assistance from the Jewish Brigade and the Bricha organization for the Modena displaced persons camp in 1946; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel aboard the Moledet; deported by the British to the "winter camp" in Cyprus in 1947; immigration to Israel in 1949; adjustment to life in Israel.
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item Id
9590558
First Name
Avraham
Last Name
Iger
Date of Birth
10/04/1918
Place of Birth
Radom, Poland
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13611
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
05/09/2011
Date of Creation - latest
05/09/2011
Name of Submitter
אייגר אברהם
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
120
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository