Moshe Ben-Ozer

Moshe Ben-Ozer (M / Lithuania, 1931), Holocaust survivor.

• <Kovno Boys> -- <Kovno Ghetto> <Auschwitz> <Death March>

USHMM Oral Interview

Moshe ben-Ozer, born in 1931 in Semeliskes, Lithuania, describes his father’s work as a merchant; being the second youngest of seven siblings; his family moving to Slobodka, Kaunas, Lithuania; the ghetto being established in their neighborhood; his bar-Mitzvah in the ghetto; hiding during Actions; the ghetto’s liquidation; his entire family leaving together on a train; the women on the train being taken off at Stutthof and the men continuing to Landsberg; being taken by truck to Dachau, where they stayed for one week; their evacuation to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train; his liberation on April 11, 1945 and being gathered with all of the other youth to be fed; finding his father and a sister after the war; staying in Foehrenwald until 1948; joining the Betar movement; joining the underground military movement, the Etzel, and taking an active part in obtaining weapons in Germany; and undergoing military training to prepare for his immigration to Israel in June 1948.