זיכרונות של הרי ברלין, יליד 1913 Warszawa פולין, על קורותיו בגטו Wilno, במחנות Kivioli, Dautmergen, Stutthof ועוד

Memoirs of Harri Berlin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in Stutthof, Dautmergen and Kivioli camps and more 

Memoirs of Harri Berlin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in Stutthof, Dautmergen and Kivioli camps and more 

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Memoirs of Harri Berlin, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto, in Stutthof, Dautmergen and Kivioli camps and more"Chapters of Memoir":"Partin" (pages 10-28): Life in the Vilna Ghetto; separation between men and women during the ghetto liquidation"Aktio", 1943; being separated from his wife; concentration together with the other Jewish males on the street under guard; public hanging of two men and one woman before being deported to the camps;"Stuttho" (pages 29-43): Deportation to Stutthof; camp life; beatings and abuse on arrival at the camp; transfer to the showers; labor in moving 50 kilo bags of cement; piling them up in pyramid form and returning them to their original location;"exercis" for hours as an excuse for abuse and additional displays of sadistic behavior; request to work in his profession as a dentist in the block; order by the Kapo to have a tooth extracted from any inmate complaining of toothaches;"Estonia, the first cam" (pages 44-102): Life in Kivioli camp; labor in the mines; transfer to work as a dentist; transfer to a camp of women transported from Auschwitz; incoming transport to Kivioli camp from Kaiserwald camp; transfer to a camp with a group of female German inmates, the majority of them criminals; their placement in preferred positions by the SS; favorable attitude on part of the female inmates towards male inmates who were physicians; air-raids by Red Army aircraft; increasing frequency of selections with the approach of the front; departure of SS men from the camp and their return after several days; handing over to Jewish physicians a box full of gold jewelry and gold dental crowns covered with the blood of their victims with an order to clean them and melt down the gold; selection and deportation of the physician in charge and the Jewish camp director right before the evacuation of the camp; bringing the clothes of the murdered men a few hours later;"Swam" [Dautmergen camp], (pages 103-135): Camp life including counting the dead in the mornings; constant struggle to obtain food; unceasing diarrhea; bathing in ice water and going out while wet into the winter frost; daily beatings; visits to the barber for a shave in exchange for a food portion bribe in preparation for expected selections; execution of inmates hiding valuables by hanging by their hands; rumors regarding the evacuation of the camp; separation between the sick and the Muselmaenner."Towards the En" (pages 136-207): Deportation on a death march; transfer on a forced march on a cement road until the railroad tracks and stuffing into a half-open cattle car with other inmates; transport for two days without water; following this, occasional stops letting the inmates out to drink water, accompanied by SS guards; stopping and receiving food parcels from International Red Cross representatives under the supervision of SS guards; continued transfer on the train until receiving an order from the guards to bring out white clothing as a sign of surrender; first meeting with the German population; organizing first aid at the initiative of a US Army officer and treatment of released inmates in a temporary hospital. Life after liberation.