Testimony of Jacob Tesler, born in Timisoara, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Timisoara during the war

Testimony of Jacob Tesler, born in Timisoara, Romania, 1939, regarding his experiences in Timisoara during the war Family background; from a religious family; his mother is from Maramures-Siget; separation of his mother from her family with the division of the Transylvania region; attends a Talmud Torah; conscription of men to forced labor; absence of his father during the war years; entry of the Red Army in 1944; information regarding the loss of the entire family of his mother in the camps; awakening of Zionism; joining the Ezra movement; aliya of his family to Israel in 1950; founding of Moshav Sde Ilan.