Testimony of Zoia Portnaya, nee Vaks, born in 1931 in Dondusani, Romania, regarding her experiences as a young girl in Dondusani, in the ghetto Bershad and in Osiyevka during war

Testimony of Zoia Portnaya,nee Vaks,born in 1931 in Dondusani,Romania,regarding her experiences as a young girl in Dondusani, in the ghetto Bershad and in Osiyevka during war. Childhood in Dondusani; father is a tailor; Russian occupation; German occupation; deportation of all the local Jews across the river Dniester in region of Transnistria; death of Jews on the way of hunger and among them Zoia's younger sister; the peasants are forbidden to open wells for the Jews; deportation to ghetto Bershad,october 1941; shortage of living space; transfer to work on an agricultural farm close to Osiyevka; father works as a tailor; capture of partisans several times by the villagers; arrival of death bands of German soldiers; liberation; transfer of father to Onshin regiment; information about murder of relatives by Romanian soldiers; aliya to Israel,1978