Testimony of Hadasa Ram, born in Radauti, 1930, regarding her experiences in Balti, and in the Dubina Ghetto

Testimony of Hadasa Ram, born in Radauti, 1930, regarding her experiences in Balti, and in the Dubina Ghetto Her family's move to Balti; annexation by the Soviet Union, June 1940; learning about Communism and emulation of Stalin at school; termination of studies with the entry of the Romanians and Germans; deportation, and a three week march accompanied by Romanian gendarmes and German soldiers; many corpses along the sides of the road; her stay at the Dubina camp; forced labor, especially agricultural work; abuse of the prisoners by a Ukrainian guard; diseases, hunger, and cold; her father's death, late 1941; her mother's death, early 1942; her move to an orphanage in Balti with her sister by the rescue committee organized by the Jews of Romania; work for a Ukrainian farm woman in exchange for food; return to Romania, March 1944. Staying in an orphanage in Iasi; life with a relative in Bucharest; aliya to Eretz Israel via Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon, late 1944; staying three weeks in Atlit; her sister's illness and death in the attack on the convoy to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus.