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Memoirs of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, about her experiences in ghettos and camps in Transnistria and in children's homes in Romania, 1941–1945, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1945

Memoirs of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, about her experiences in ghettos and camps in Transnistria and in children's homes in Romania, 1941–1945, and her immigration to Eretz Israel in 1945 - testimony of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, born in Borăuti in 1931, about her childhood in Bukovina, her family's deportation to Transnistria, and her internment in ghettos and camps in Transnistria during the Holocaust; - "And She Stationed Herself from Afar" (cf. Exodus 2:4), memoirs of Miriam (Wiedman) Shtrasberg, born in Borăuti in 1931, about her experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust; the book was published [in Hebrew] in 2020 and includes congratulations, poems, and speeches about family events, by Miriam Shtrasberg and members of her family: Childhood in Borăuti and, later, in Cozmeni; Soviet Union annexes the area; war erupts and reports arrive about murder of relatives in Borăuti by their neighbors; deportation to Transnistria in October 1941; march from Mogilev Podolskiy; deportees housed in a pigsty in Martynovka; escaping from pigsty and attempting to hide in the countryside; Jews robbed by Romanians; escaping to the Kopaygorod ghetto; sent to the Kopay camp; escaping from the camp and reaching the Luchinets ghetto; reports about parents' death in autumn 1942 (deported from the countryside to the forests, where they died); death of relatives; Jewish children, including the witness and her sister Mina, handed back to representatives of Romanian Jewish community; placed in a children's home in Botoșani and, later, in a children's home in Bucharest; immigrates to Eretz Israel in autumn 1945; lives in Kefar HaRoeh and, later, in Jerusalem; takes teacher training; serves as a liaison in Jerusalem in the War of Independence; works in Haifa; marries Dov Shtrasberg in 1956 and moves to Jerusalem; work and family life.