Testimony of Ventura Barash, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest

Testimony of Ventura Barash, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in Bucharest Life before the war; her father owns a store; attends a Sephardi school; attends high school. Payment of forced contribution assigned to the Jews, 1940; hears stories about a meeting between the King of Romania and Ion Victor Antonescu, the ruler of Romania; request to pay with merchandise rather than money; murder of a Jew by a Romanian soldier; knowledge of impending arrests of Communist Jews; warning given to the Communist Jews about the arrests; hears stories of rescue of Jews; hears stories of meetings with German attaches in Romania (including stories of meetings held with Nicolae Ceausescu, who became the ruler of Romania in the 1960s).