Abraham Lewent
Abraham Lewent and his family were deported to the Warsaw ghetto. Him and his sister would carry buckets of water from the river for four miles. Because the polish had a lot of anti semitism towards the jews, whenever Abraham and his sister would walk through a polish neighborhood kids would dump out their pails of water and they would have to start over again. The conditions of the ghetto were horrible, people would lie on the street begging for food, you were lucky to get food. In 1942, abraham hid in a crawl space as the germans killed his mother and sister during a raid. Abraham was then moved to a nearby labor camp, where he escaped to go back to his father in the ghetto.
In 1943, the two were deported to Majdanek. At Majdanek him and his father dug ditches, and broke up stones. One day Abraham and his father were digging a ditch, when another prisoner picked up a stone and threw a stone at Abraham's father and broke his leg. He couldn't walk and his leg was extremely swollen. Not knowing that the doctor would kill him, Abraham found a doctor to come and see his father. The doctor promised to have his father back by the next day, but unfortunately he was never seen again.
From Majdanek, Abraham was sent to Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben, Bisingen, and Dachau. Abraham recalls the day U.S. troops liberated him from his camp. People were in absolute shock of the scene before them. The troops began sending people to the hospital, and giving out water and food packets. The prisoners were so malnourished that their stomachs were not used to consuming food and hundreds died. Abraham was lucky enough to survive these horrible conditions and make it out alive.
In 1943, the two were deported to Majdanek. At Majdanek him and his father dug ditches, and broke up stones. One day Abraham and his father were digging a ditch, when another prisoner picked up a stone and threw a stone at Abraham's father and broke his leg. He couldn't walk and his leg was extremely swollen. Not knowing that the doctor would kill him, Abraham found a doctor to come and see his father. The doctor promised to have his father back by the next day, but unfortunately he was never seen again.
From Majdanek, Abraham was sent to Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben, Bisingen, and Dachau. Abraham recalls the day U.S. troops liberated him from his camp. People were in absolute shock of the scene before them. The troops began sending people to the hospital, and giving out water and food packets. The prisoners were so malnourished that their stomachs were not used to consuming food and hundreds died. Abraham was lucky enough to survive these horrible conditions and make it out alive.