Esther Ortenberg

Testimony of Esther Esfir (Shtok) Ortenberg, born in Mogilev Podolskiy, Ukraine in 1935, regarding her experiences in Pechera camp and in the Cernauti Ghetto Testimony regarding her family; murder of family members during the civil war; her family escapes from Mogilev Podolskiy at the start of the war; detention by the Germans in Tulchin; air-raids; many people are killed during the air-raids; deportation of her family to Pechera camp; hunger; her family escapes from the camp by means of bribery; receipt of a small amount of food from local villagers; her family escapes to the Cernauti Ghetto; life in a cellar; suffering from hunger; liberation, March 1944; death of many of the residents in the ghetto due to the air-raids during the liberation; aliya to Israel, 1991.