Testimony of Shalom Segal, born in Herta, 1919, regarding his experiences during the Soviet occupation in Herta, deportation to Jedenec and Mogilev Podolsk, Pechora camp

Testimony of Shalom Segal, born in Herta, 1919, regarding his experiences during Soviet occupation in Herta, deportation to Jedenec and Mogilev Podolsk, and in the Pechora camp Childhood and life before the war; family with many children and limited livelihood; the Jewish community in Herta; relations with Romanian neighbors. Soviet occupation and the consequent changes; confiscation of belongings of wealthy residents in town and deportation of some of them to Siberia, help for those with small earnings; Romanian re-occupation; escape of the family to Bessarabia with the withdrawal of the Soviets, and return to Hertz with the Romanian occupation; deportation of the Jews to Jedenec, June 1941; difficult journey by foot and humiliations by Romanian guards; deported by foot again to Atachi, September 1941 and crossing the Dniester River on rafts to Mogilev-Podolsk; life in Pechora camp; forced labor building a bridge in Trihati and in Odessa; return to Dorohoi with his family, January 1944 and staying there until liberation by the Red Army. Move to Bucharest; aliya to Israel, 1950; absorption.