Yaakov Kalman

Testimony of Yakob Kalman, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1924, regarding his experiences in the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto and Balki Life before the war. Injury to his sister during a pogrom; rescue of his brother by Ukrainians; deportation to Transnistria; concentration in the train station; deportation by train; death of his brother from typhus; transfer on foot and by wagon to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; ghetto life; transfer to Balki; murder of Jews and Ukrainians by Germans; beating Jews; agricultural labor for a Ukrainian; informers; sabotage to railroad tracks by partisans; air-raids; liberation by the partisans. Life in Cernauti; return home; aliya training with Bnei Akiva; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel, 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.