Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places

Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places 

Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places 

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Testimony of Michl Orszanski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1905, regarding his experiences in Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna and other places Deportation with 40 men and 150 women from the prison in Bialystok to Stutthof, late November 1943; escape attempt en route to Stutthof; murder of the escapees; life in Stutthof for seven weeks; transfer of the inmates to Auschwitz, 12 January 1944; transfer of the inmates to Block 13 in Birkenau; life in Birkenau including abuse of the inmates by a Jewish Kapo; deportation of Jews from Bedzin to Birkenau, 29 January 1944; murder of the Jews in the crematorium; transfer with other inmates to the Buna camp; camp life including abuse; forced labor at painting, hewing rocks and labor in concrete; selection in the camp clinic by Dr. Fischer; mutual help among the inmates; transfer of approximately 12,000 inmates to Gleiwitz on a death march with the approach of the armies at the Front including deaths from hunger and cold; arrival of approximately 7,000 inmates at Gleiwitz; deaths of the rest of inmates en route; selection; murder of the sick; transfer of the healthy inmates to Buchenwald in open railroad cars over the course of two weeks; life in Buchenwald including mortality; burning of thousands of corpses of inmates in the crematoria; transfer of Jews, including the witness, to Theresienstadt; liberation, 08 May 1945.