Street: Gęsia City: From Warsaw

Jewish Historical Institute Archives; 302/139; Nathan Zelechower (Jan Kurczab); no title. Living conditions in the Warsaw ghetto. Staying in shelters after the Great Action in 1942, deportation to the Majdanek concentration camp. Sufferings of the Majdanek prisoners. Transport to Auschwitz, his stay in camp in Jawiszowice and work in the mine. The death march to Wodzislaw Slaski and evacuation to Buchenwald. His work (in a quarry) in the Ohrdruf and Crawinkel camps is described, foot evacuation to Buchenwald. In each case, the author describes the situation in the camps, Jews' suffering and events which he remembered most. He describes the liberation by the Americans and the position of former prisoners after it. The author was a dental technician. He donated the diary, written after the war, to the Jewish Historical Commission in Cracow. His assumed name and the name of a publicist and social activist form Cracow are coincidental.
Published in: Natan Zelechower, Siedem obozow, 'Biuletyn ZIH', nr 4 (68), 1968, p. 7-51 (summary); Pamietniki z getta warszawskiego, Warszawa 1993, p. 46-47, 86-89, 129-135 (fragments)