Testimony of Pola (Postelnik) Herman, born in Chotin, 1932, regarding her experiences in Chotin, Dzhurin and an orphanage

Testimony of Pola (Postelnik) Herman, born in Chotin, 1932, regarding her experiences in Chotin, Dzhurin and an orphanage Childhood in a large and unified well-to-do family; her father is a tailor. Air-raids; acts of arson; death of relatives during the first weeks of the war; execution of young Jewish men; deportation to Dzhurin; conditions en route; abuse and robbery by Romanian soldiers and young Ukrainians; death of her grandmother and her mother's husband; help from Jews in towns; life in the Dzhurin Ghetto; help from the population in obtaining food; hunger; cold; filth; high mortality rate of children; life in the winter in a synagogue with corpses inside; move to an orphanage for approximately a year; helps her father with food; studies; disease; return home. Living conditions after the war; completion of medical studies in a college; work in a military hospital in the western Ukraine; aliya together with her husband and father, 1973.