Testimony of Nat Strakhman, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences during his deportation to Transnistria

Testimony of Nat Strakhman, born in Lipcani, Romania, 1934, regarding his experiences during his deportation to Transnistria Family background; Soviet invasion in summer 1940; Operation Barbarossa in June 1941; expulsion from his home and wanderings in Bessarabia in summer 1941; deportation to Transnistria and arrival in Luchinets; helped by his uncle, a doctor; studies in the ghetto taught by a religious studies teacher; deportation of his father for forced labor; liberation in spring 1944; hiding from the Cossacks; return to Lipcani; move to Venezuela in 1948; aliya to Israel in 1964; absorption and rehabilitation.