Testimony of Meir Galperin, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Targo Naimeyz and Tecuci

Testimony of Meir Galperin, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Targo Naimeyz and Tecuci Life before the war; Gordonia membership. Soviet occupation, 1940; life during Soviet rule; German occupation, 1941; anti-Jewish decrees including forced labor; escape; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; release with help from his father's contacts; draft; deportation to Targo Naimeyz; life in Targo Naimeyz including labor digging to divert a river; fostered by a local Jewish family; receives money from his mother with the help of a Romanian soldier, late 1942; move to Tecuci; life in Tecuci including labor as a translator for a German physician in a field hospital; escape during the German retreat; liberation by the Red Army. Move to Bucharest; meets the future author K. Tzetnik; aliya to Eretz Israel via Budapest, 1946.