Testimony of Simcha Siegfried Seidenstein, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Cernauti and the Mogilev Podolski Ghetto

Testimony of Simcha Siegfried Seidenstein, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Cernauti and the Mogilev Podolski Ghetto Traditional family, his father is an economist; learns in a "heder"; attends a Romanian school and a Jewish school in the afternoons; activities in the Bar Kochba and Hashmonian youth movements. Anti-Jewish legislation in the civilian and educational sectors; Soviet occupation, 1940; return to Romanian rule, 27 July 1941; a riot against the Jews; establishment of the ghetto; ghetto life and the eventual partial deportation of the Jews; deportation to the Mogilev Podolski Ghetto via Skanitz; opening of a registration center for the rescue of Jews in Mogilev Podolski; life in Mogilev Podolski until liberation by the Red Army, 1944; draft into the Red Army, May 1944; building airfields in the Soviet Union and Poland, November 1944. Receives help from Michoels, to return home; completion of studies; Hanoar Hatzioni aliya training in Cluj; adminstration of a Hanoar Hatzioni branch in Borsa; detention camp in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949; absorption in Alonei Abba.