Testimony of Marcu Libovitz, born in 1922 in Iași, Romania, about persecution and assignment to forced labor in Romania

Testimony of Marcu Libovitz, born in 1922 in Iași, Romania, about persecution and assignment to forced labor in Romania Childhood in Iași; antisemitism before the war; fear of Iron Guard members (Legionnaires); arrested in 1939; beaten to unconsciousness; released a week later with help from the Jewish community; anti-Jewish legislation; pogrom in Iași in June 1941; itness escapes from convoy of men being taken to the police station; goes into hiding; wears a badge of shame; assigned to forced labor at the municipal railroad station, unloading German weaponry from railroad cars; hunger; assigned to labor in a quarry at Ghidighici; endures beatings; hunger; back to Iași in 1943; hunger; underground Zionist activity; liberated by Red Army forces in August 1944; life in a hakhshara (Zionist training center) in Reghin; Romanian authorities stamp out Zionist activity in 1947; witness immigrates to Israel in 1958; adjusts to life in Israel.