Testimony of Joseph Lerer Eldar, born in Vijnita, 1931, regarding his experiences in different ghettos in Transnistria and forced labor
A close family; his parents' livelihood; learns in school and "heder"; visiting his grandparents in Poland; daily life; the religious holidays; rabbinical court; the Jewish community; life under Soviet occupation; expulsion of Jews to Siberia; plans to emigrate to the United States, which were not realized; deportation by train to Transnistria; conditions on the train; crossing the border to Mogilev Podolski; crossing the river on rafts; concentration of Jews in a synagogue; staying in different ghettos; diseases and hunger; removing the dead on wagons; drafting of people for forced labor; living conditions during the forced labor; his father was a dentist; the winter in Transnistria; living in a village; celebrating his Bar Mitzvah; retreat of the Germans; Soviet occupation.
Death of his mother; travel of his father to the village where he living; air-raids; drafting of his father into the Red Army; return home; death of his father from typhus; moved to his uncle's in Bucharest; joining Gordonia youth movement; on a training farm; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946; absorption; life on Kibbutz Ramat Hanegev and serving in the Palmach during the War of Independence.
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3877201
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Joseph
Yultzio
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Eldar
Lerer
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03/01/1931
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Vijnita, Romania
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Testimony
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11889
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives