Testimony of Margita (Katz Abramovicz) Faust, born in Vatra Dornei, 1928, regarding her experiences in Transnistria
An Orthodox, Zionist, affluent family of lumber merchants; agriculture and rafts; A.C. Cuza's Iron Guard, 1939; riots against the Jews; her grandfather from her mother's side, bought land in Eretz Israel, 1936; learning in elementary school in Dornei and junior high school in Campulung; Romania joins forces with Germany; restrictions on Jews and forbidden to go out after six in the evening; yellow badge; deportation to Transnistria, October 1941; saved with the help suitcases containing textiles; deportation in cattle cars to Atachi; bribing a Romanian officer; deportation to the Lucinets Ghetto; giving the textiles to farmers and also the men working in exchange for food; the women worked in knitting; hunger; freezing; disease; murder of the Romanian gendarmes by the partisans, March 1944; liberation by the Red Army.
Return to Romania; liberation of Northern Bukovina; return to Vatra Dornei at the end of 1944; studies at the university in Bucharest, 1945; aliya to Israel, 1962.
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3747736
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Margita
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Faust
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Abramovicz
Abramovitz
Katz
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20/12/1928
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Vatra Dornei, Romania
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Testimony
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11640
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives