Testimony of Zipora (Wallach) Zinn, born in Cernăuți, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Cernăuți, Lipcani, and Chechelnik

Testimony of Zipora (Wallach) Zinn, born in Cernăuți, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences in Cernăuți, Lipcani, and Chechelnik Her childhood in Cernăuți in a wealthy family; her grandparents observed religious commandments; Outbreak of war while she and her sister were at her grandparents’ home in Lipcani; deportation of Jews to Transnistria; murder of her grandparents; two-year walking journey with her sister; constant hunger; cold; typhus; survival; cold-related disease; arrival at the Chechelnik camp; reunion with her father after two years, reunion with her mother a year later; wandering between barns; search for food; Liberation by the Red Army; return to her hometown and illegal immigration to Israel on the ship Negba.