Testimony of David Eitan Fichman, born in Lipcani, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bojan, hiding, the Cernauti Ghetto and Mogilev Podolski labor camp

Testimony of David Eitan Fichman, born in Lipcani, 1923, regarding his experiences in Bojan, hiding, the Cernauti Ghetto and Mogilev Podolski labor camp Well-to-do-family, owners of a flour mill in Lipcani; move to Bojan after entry of Russians, 1940. Avoiding deportation to Siberia by the Russians; evasion of farmers’ riots; hiding in attic; escape in middle of night and wanderings to Cernauti; entry into the ghetto; various forms of forced labor; deportation via train to Atachi, autumn 1941 and then to Mogilev Podolski; life in the camp without food and sanitary conditions; lice, typhus and other infectious diseases; labor in a metal factory; liberation. Volunteered to the Red Army; aliya to Eretz Israel on illegal immigrant ship "Haganah", 1946; participation in Israel's War of Independence; life in Israel.