Testimony of Mordechai Joseph Tesler, born in Sighet, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Timisoara and in the Romanian Army

Testimony of Mordechai Joseph Tesler, born in Sighet, Romania, 1918, regarding his experiences in Timisoara and in the Romanian Army His childhood in an Orthodox religious family; move to Timisoara; learns in a "heder" and attends a Jewish school; decrees, 1940. Draft into the Romanian Army, August 1941; labor in various camps as a plumber for the Romanian Army, 1941-1944; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; return to Timisoara; shelling by the Germans; escape of Jews to Lugoj. Return to Timisoara, October 1944; joins Bnei Akiva; move to Bucharest; aliya to Eretz Israel via Constanta, Istanbul, Syria and Lebanon with 930 orphans from Transnistria; absorption.