Avraham Adolf Porges

Testimony of Abraham Adolf Porges, born in Beclean, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Turda Ghetto Witness' family moves to Calatele; attends a non-Jewish school; way of life and religious holidays at home; relations with non-Jews; studies in Oradea. Attitude of Iron Guardsmen towards the Jews; deportation to Turda by cart; ghetto life; confiscation of valuables through torture; smuggling network; drafting of Jews to forced labor; flogging during work time; shortage of food; labor paving roads; liberation by the Red Army. Arranging aliya to Eretz Israel; move to Italy; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; capture of the ship by the British; detention in Cyprus; life in detention in Cyprus; contact with his parents; second aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; life in a camp in Atlit; training in Kibbutz Usha; settling in Shoresh and development the moshav.