Testimony of Avraham Rudikh, born in 1932 in Cernauti, Romania, about his experiences as a boy in the Cernauti ghetto and in hideouts in the countryside

Testimony of Avraham Rudikh, born in 1932 in Cernauti, Romania, about his experiences as a boy in the Cernauti ghetto and in hideouts in the countryside Life before the war; information about the family; attends a Romanian school; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; private businesses liquidated; wealthy individuals deported to Siberia; denunciations by family members promoted; German occupation ensues in 1941; Soviet authorities retreat; Jews sustain physical and verbal abuse; father and uncle murdered; property stolen; executions; stonings; three-day pogrom against the Jews; life amid fear and uncertainty; some 200 Jews rounded up and murdered on the banks of the River Prut; Jews banished to a ghetto; life in the overdrowded ghetto; much strife due to overcrowding; deportation order promulgated; $3,000 bribe paid to redeem Jews from deportation to the camps; witness escapes to various hideouts in the countryside due to widespread denunciation and upturn in oppression; liberation by Red Army forces; witness active in the Hanoar Hazioni movement; "certificates" (Mandate Palestine immigration visas) and illegal immigration to Eretz Israel; deportation to Cyprus; immigration to Israel; adjustment to life in Israel.