Testimony of Avram Siner, born in Botosani, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Zvorastea, Roman, Briceni, Jedineti, Lunca Dunarei and other places

Testimony of Avram Siner, born in Botosani, Romania, 1914, regarding his experiences in labor battalions in Zvorastea, Roman, Briceni, Jedineti, Lunca Dunarei and other places From a family with nine children; the men in the family are employed as butchers; work from the age of 12; membership in Poalei Zion; marriage at the age of 18; military service, 1936-1939; reserve service. Expulsion from the army because he was a Jew, 1942; drafted into labor battalions; transfer from Zvorastea to Roman; life in the battalion including labor paving roads; awaiting execution; cancellation of the execution by a German officer; transfer to Jedineti; transfer to Briceni; transfer via Braila and Constanta to Lunca Dunarei; escape in a boat on the Danube River towards the end of the war; hiding from the Red Army in Buzau. Return home, autumn 1944; life under Communism; aliya to Israel, 1962.