Testimony of Leizer Orshanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jaworzno, Blechhammer and other places

Testimony of Leizer Orshanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jaworzno, Blechhammer and other places 

Testimony of Leizer Orshanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jaworzno, Blechhammer and other places 

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Testimony of Leizer Orshanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in hiding in the Bialystok Ghetto, Auschwitz, Jaworzno, Blechhammer and other places In hiding with 60 other Jews in the Bialystok Ghetto; discovery of the hiding place by the Jewish police, 05 February 1941; betrayal of those in hiding to the Germans by Salaman, the Jewish policeman; deportation to Auschwitz with his family; selection; transfer of the children, women and the elderly to the crematorium, including their names; life in Auschwitz including labor as a house painter with his 14-year old son in Block Number 15A; transfer to labor in the Budy camp; transfer to labor in the Babicze camp; transfer with other Jews to forced labor mining coal in the Jaworzno camp, August 1943; life in the Jaworzno camp for approximately two years; evacuation of the camp, 17 January 1943; transfer to Blechhammer on foot for three days without food or drink; escape from the camp together with his son and five other inmates; in hiding in the forest; organizing themselves into a group of about 40 people who had escaped from the camp; approach of the armies and the Front; liberation. Return to Bialystok, March 1945.