Lost Youth
(Poland)

Translation of Neurim Avudim

Written by Liber Taub

Privately published in 1995




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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Ada Holtzman



Our sincere appreciation to Liber Taub for permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation from: Neurim Avudim , Lost Youth: Holocaust Memories; Survived as a Boy: Two Ghettos,
One Forced Labour Camp, Three Concentration Camps, Liber Taub, author, 1995, privately published


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To the memory of my mother Chana neé Adler, my father Tuvia Taub, my sister Bela, my brothers Icchak and Szlomo,
my grandfather Ber Taub and all other members of my family who perished in the Holocaust.

To the memory of the parents of my wife Mania, her mother Chana neé Wiloga, her father Abraham Goldberg,
her sisters Rozka, Hela and all the other memebrs of her family who perished in the Holocaust.


Contents

A Forward, March 1995
August 1939
  Before and the beginning of WWII
Gombin
  To Gombin and backwards
The Occupation
  545 Forced Labour in Plock
  Works I performed in various German units
  Airport
  Building shooting range
  The Air Force quartermastership
  The Archbishop city
  The Archbishop Dr. Nowowiejski
  The priests school
  My brother Herszek (Cwi)
  The genius Rabbi Zysza Plocker of blessed memory
Ghetto Plock
  Erection of the Ghetto until deportation
Ghetto Wierzbnik-Starachowice
  “The paternal grandfather Ber Taub z“l died in ghetto Starachowice and is buried in its Jewish destroyed cemetery. His son, Tuwia Taub z“l, my father, died after one month and is buried near him. No single photo of them both remained… They died of hunger”
Knitting
Forced Labour Camp Starachowice
Shoes
Auschwitz Birkenau
Shoes - Part 2
Buna
Gleiwitz
Evacuation
Liberation
The Way to Plock
 
Photographs
 
(See also: http://www.zchor.org/taub/taub.htm)


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