Testimony of Zalman Iacob, born in Bacau, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer and in prisons in Romania

Testimony of Zalman Iacob, born in Bacau, Romania, 1919, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer and in prisons in Romania Move to Bucharest, 1930s; marriage, 1940. Deportation of the witness's family to Mogilev; deportation to forced labor in Domnesti; labor building railroads for six months; transfer to Voinesti; labor digging anti-tank trenches; detention for three months for identifying with Communists; sentenced to 25 years imprisonment after his late return from leave which was considered as desertion; release ten months later, with help from a lawyer; return home; imprisonment in Bucharest; escape during air-raids. Return home at the end of the war; work as a barber; illegal immigration to Eretz Israel; absorption.