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He details conditions on the deportation train; separation from his father and sister at Auschwitz; selection and transport with his brothers to Görlitz; his younger brother's murder; forced labor in an armaments factory; beatings; digging trenches; his older brother's death during a forced march; leaving camp after it was abandoned; incarceration in the Görlitz jail; liberation by Soviet troops while on a death march; returning to Poland to seek surviving relatives; and reunion with his sister in Regensburg displaced persons camp. His testimony is suffused with the anger, bitterness, and psychological torment he has suffered as a result of his loss. (Abstract)","This testimony is open with permission. (Conditions Governing Access)","Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive. 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