Akiva Karol Sinnreich

Testimony of Akiva Karol Sinnreich, born in 1935 in Cernauti, Romania, about his experiences in Cernăuți Childhood in Cernăuți; Soviet occupation ensues in 1940; German-Romanian occupation ensues in 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; curfew; wearing badge of shame; father arrested and released by briebry; grandparents murdered in a town nearby; dispossession; sent to Cernăuți ghetto in October 1941; overcrowding; deportation to Transnistria; given permission to stay because father is declared useful to the Romanian economy, with assistance from the Mayor of Cernăuți, Traian Popovici (subsequently named Righteous among the Nations); hunger; allowed the leave the ghetto a short time later; antisemitism among the local population; liberated by Red Army forces in February 1944; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1947; deportation to Cyprus; immigration to Israel in 1948; adjustment to life in Israel.