Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel

Testimony of Menahem Lior, born in Bedzin, Poland in 1928, regarding his experiences during ‎deportation to the Bedzin Ghetto and the work camp in Kamionka; hidden by a Pole; escape to ‎Eretz Israel His childhood in a socialist Zionist home; refugees from Germany; rise of antisemitism; outbreak of ‎war on 1 September 1939; anti-Jewish laws and decrees; restriction of Jewish movement and ‎concentration in one area; youth movements; agricultural farm; Zionist and underground ‎activities; infiltrating into a nearby work camp; work collecting and sorting possessions of the Jews ‎in the ghetto; removing dead bodies from the killing pit; escape with the help of the Zionist ‎Movement and hiding in the house of a Polish family; illegal border crossing into Slovakia and from ‎there to Hungary; the German invasion of Hungary on 19 March 1944; escape to Romania; aliya to ‎Israel on 17 July 1944, by ship to Turkey and from there by train to Haifa; absorption and ‎acclimatization. ‎ People mentioned in the interview:‎ David Lior—leader of the Gordonia youth movement in Bedzin Aryeh Lior—director of the Farm in Bedzin Shimon Frist—member of Gordonia from Warsaw who escaped to Bedzin Chaim Moletzki—representative of the JNF in Bedzin Dr. Ek—principal of the Jewish school in Lodz Frumka Plutitzki Maks Brant—member of the underground and of Hashomer Hatzair Itka Pesachson—member of the underground; hanged for arms smuggling Hershel Shpringer—member of the underground and one of the leaders of the kibbutz in Bedzin Poles who helped Jews:‎ Roman—a Polish partisan The Novak family The Kubiltz family