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Blyzin labor camp

Labor camp where the narrator and Sholem were later held.

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... young men were taken to the showers for ‘“‘delousing”’ and a haircut. Later the Nazis gathered several hundred men, including shoemakers, tailors and other trades- men, and loaded them onto a train. Once again I was selected for extermination at Majdanek. But at the last moment, when the men piled into the train, my beloved Sholem pulled me into the car. Our trains later arrived at the Blyzin labor camp. ...

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... Several years ago I testified in Germany against an Eichmann on a smaller scale: SS officer Arthur Gos- berg, commandant of the labor camp Blyzin. There thousands of Bialystoker Jews perished. ...

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