Testimony of Yitzhak Yisraeli, born in Iasi, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Iasi Ghetto and Transnistria

Testimony of Yitzhak Yisraeli, born in Iasi, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences in the Iasi Ghetto and Transnistria Life before the war; his father owns a sewing workshop and rents out houses; death of his mother, 1937; the family were granted privileges due to the father's medal of distinction during World War I; attends a Romanian school. Displays of antisemitism in school; Iasi Pogrom, 29 June 1941; expulsion of the Jews from schools; decrees; confiscation of equipment from his father's workshop, 1942; yellow badge; deportation to the Iasi Ghetto; ghetto life and confiscation of his father's sewing machine by the German Army; deportation to Transnistria; life in Transnistria; help from the JDC; draft of his brother to forced labor; help to the family's livelihood by peddling; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Acts of revenge on Jewish collaborators; joins Dror Habonim youth movement; aliya to Eretz Israel, end of February 1946.