Testimony of Lev Berco, born in Iasi, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony of Lev Berco, born in Iasi, Romania, 1935, regarding his experiences in Iasi His family and economic situation. His father is accused of attempt to murder a policeman; his father's trial and death sentence; escape of his father who then hides until the end of the war; move of the witness, his mother and siblings to a Jewish neighborhood in Iasi due to displays of antisemitism; difficulties to earn a livelihood; labor in a flour mill, selling cigarettes, begging, and stealing food; life in the shadow of horror and murders by Romanian legionnaires; hearsay testimony regarding the mass murder of the Iasi Jews and deportation of thousands of Jews to Calarasi in closed freight cars, June 1941; murder of hundreds of Iasi Jews in an electric plant; in hiding in bunkers; liberation. Behavior of Red Army soldiers after the liberation; aliya to Israel with help from Agudat Israel after he sets sail on the "Chafetz Chaim" ship, 1949; difficulties in Israel.