Testimony of Gedalja Steinmetz, born in Tinca, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tinca, Beius, Ginta, Virciorog, Ocolis and other places

Testimony of Gedalja Steinmetz, born in Tinca, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in Tinca, Beius, Ginta, Virciorog, Ocolis and other places Jewish community life in Tinca; competition for the position of rabbi; reception given for the new rabbi; life in Tinca with his familly including attending a government school and learning in a "heder"; learns in the "Yesod Hatorah" Talmud Torah in Oradea; learns in a yeshiva in Tusnad; dispersion of the yeshiva, 1940. Iron Guard takes control over the homes and stores of the Jews; deportation of Jews from Tinca to Beius, March 1941; transfer of Jews to Tinca back from Beius, due to lack of space; transfer of Jews from Tinca to Ginta; life in Ginta including finding a place to live; speech given by the Reform priest in Ginta, in favor of the Jews; illegal crossing of the border by the Vizhnitzer Rebbe; draft of the witness to labor battalions with his brother and father, 1942; labor logging trees in forests in Virciorog; labor in stone quarries in Ocolis, including a work accident; labor laying railroad tracks in Canepesti; labor digging fortifications in Cotul Lung; observation of kashrut in the camps; arrival of Hungarian refugees to Ginta, 1944; return to Ginta; German Army occupation of Ginta; escape from Ginta; arrival to Brad; receives help from people in the Deva community; move to Bucharest; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944 [it should say: October]. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Turkey and Syria, using a collective [group] certificate, 1944.