Tzvi Herman Shalev Stolz

Testimony of Zvi Herman Stolz Shalev, born in Petroseni, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Petroseni, Arad, Cotu Lung, Bucharest, Timisoara and other places Life in a religious family including attending public school and learning in a "heder"; activities in the Habonim Zionist movement; move to Arad due to hardships earning a livelihood, 1938. Draft to forced labor as a tailor for the Romanian Army, 1942; detention after being informed on; transfer to various camps including Cotu Lung; escape from Cotu Lung with a friend; move to Bucharest; return to Arad; life in Arad including escape from the authorities; liberation by the Red Army, late 1944; draft into the Red Army as a tailor. Aliya training in Timisoara, 1945; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel via Austria and Italy on the "Enzo Sereni" ship; detention in Atlit, January 1946.