Testimony of Berta Ovich, born in Radauti, 1931, regarding her experiences in Transnistria

Testimony of Berta Ovich, born in Radauti, 1931, regarding her experiences in Transnistria Family; attends a non-Jewish school; Jews in the village; good neighborly relations with the Romanians until 1939; membership in Bnei Akiva; Zionist activities. Riots; in hiding, rescue of her father; deportation to Transnistria; travel to Atachi by train; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; hunger, fear and disease; deportation to Krizhopol; help from an SS man; liberation. Soviet occupation; draft of men to the Red Army; return to Radauti; their house has been destroyed; Bnei Akiva aliya training; sets sail on the ship, "Atzmaut" under the auspices of Youth Aliyah, 1947; detention in Cyprus by the British; settles in Kibbutz Usha, starts a family and establishes herself in Israel.