Family background ; appointment of the uncles to the Jewish Committee in Amsterdam during German occupation; death of the brother in the shelling of the city in 1943; deportation to Westerbork in September 1943; deportation of the family to The "star camp"(Sternenlager)in Bergen Belsen in January 1944; joining of the grandfathers to an inmate exchange deal with the Templars in 1944; death of the parents and grandmother in Bergen Belsen; joining the group of children sponsored by the Birenboim family; the labor train; liberation by the Russians in Troebitz in April 1944; living in the children's home of Rabbi...
Life before the war; life as a Gerrer Hasid and an ordained rabbi; war breaks out; family-owned enterprises are confiscated; sidelocks forcibly shorn; cleaning streets; deportation to the Lodz ghetto; father dies of exhaustion; mother and five siblings deported in Aktionen; working at a shop for disassembly of deported Jews' shoes; ghetto liquidated in August 1944; witness depoted to Auschwitz; selection in the camp and assignment to labor in November 1944; digging ditches for telephone lines; life in the Ebensee camp in January 1945; digging below ground; liberation by American forces; life in the Zeilsheim...
Testimony of Nachman Zonabend, born in Leczyca, Poland, 1918, regarding his experiences as a photographer in the Lodz Ghetto
Life in the Lodz Ghetto including photographing ghetto life with Mendel Grossman, the photographer, from 1940; collecting the photographs and hiding them; hiding paintings of Jozef Kowner; taking documents from the printing press and hiding them in jars in the earth and an old well, 1944; liberation, 19 January 1945.
Collecting the documents and photographs and giving them to the Jewish Historical Commission.