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Contains Chaim Yehoshua Neuman's 93-page handwritten memoir, in Yiddish, in which he describes his life in pre-war Poland; the increasing persecution of Jews which followed the German invasion of Poland in September 1939; his experiences in the Sosnoftza and Srodula ghettos; his work in a tailor shop and a clothing factory; his deportation to Birkenau concentration camp, circa August 1943; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp a few weeks later, where he worked in the tailor's shop; his transfer by train to Buchenwald concentration camp during January 1945; his transfer to Rehmsdorf concentration camp; his transfer to Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was liberated on May 8, 1945, by Soviet troops; his post-war return to Poland; and his emigration to the United States in 1948; Boruch Neuman's English translation with a 3-page introduction entitled"A Very Special Person" and 10 photocopied pages from two publications concerning deportations and Auschwitz.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The stories of our lives Chaim Szyja and Dwojrele Neuman