My father's testament : memoir of a Jewish teenager, 1938-1945 /

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1926 in Sosnowiec as Eliezer Gastfreund, the youngest son of a hasidic family of eight children. One brother immigrated to Palestine before the war; two brothers fled to the Soviet Union; one brother was arrested as a Polish POW; one sister married and went to Będzin; anoth...

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Main Author: Gastfriend, Edward, 1926-
Contributors: Krondorfer, Björn.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2000.
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520 |a Memoirs of a Jew born in 1926 in Sosnowiec as Eliezer Gastfreund, the youngest son of a hasidic family of eight children. One brother immigrated to Palestine before the war; two brothers fled to the Soviet Union; one brother was arrested as a Polish POW; one sister married and went to Będzin; another sister was arrested. The last three perished in the war. Between 1940-42 Gastfriend participated in resistance actions. In August 1942 his parents and remaining sister were deported (and perished). Gastfriend posed as a non-Jew, moving from place to place in Sosnowiec. In summer 1943 he was arrested by the Jewish police and sent to the Seibersdorf (Zebrzydowice) labor camp in Upper Silesia. In April 1944 all of the inmates were transferred to Blechhammer; Gastfriend was sent for forced labor at the construction plant Oberschlesische Hydrierwerke. In January 1945 he was taken on a death march to Gross-Rosen, and from there transported to Buchenwald and then to the Langenstein concentration camp, where he remained from February to April 1945. He was liberated when he escaped during the death march from Langenstein. After the war, Gastfriend immigrated to the USA. Pp. 173-187 contain an afterword by Björn Krondorfer.  |c (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism). 
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