Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places

Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places 

Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places 

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Testimony of Chiel Szedler, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Janina, Buchenwald and other places Life in the Bialystok Ghetto including work as an electrician and a sorter and repairer of Soviet weapons that fell into German hands; smuggling weapons parts into the ghetto by Szendler and other workers; arrival of weapons parts into the hands of the partisans through a Soviet officer; smuggling a radio station [receiver?] into the ghetto; attitude of Schulz, the German policeman; help of Jewish inmates to Soviet POWs working with them in the barracks; activities of Shmuel Bashevkin in smuggling weapons and helping POWs; first"Aktio" in the ghetto, February 1943; deportation of the Jews, including the witness, to Auschwitz; escape of inmates from the train en route to Auschwitz; murder by shooting of the inmates who escaped; arrival at Auschwitz including selection; transfer of 120 men and 30 women to the camp; murder of the rest of the Jews in the gas chambers; life in Birkenau under quarantine for six weeks; forced labor in Auschwitz; labor in coal mines in Janina in the Jaworzno area; life in Janina including abuse and murder of Jews; transfer of the Jews to the Gleiwitz camp, 17 January 1945; transfer to Buchenwald in coal cars; transfer to Sachsenhausen; selection; transfer to Oranienburg; death march, April 1945 including hunger, exhaustion and mortality of the inmates; liberation by the US Army, 27 April 1945.