Testimony of Sania Gonski, born in Briceva, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Olgopol, Obodovka, Bershad, the Berski kolkhoz and Nikolayev

Testimony of Sania Gonski, born in Briceva, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Olgopol, Obodovka, Bershad, the Berski kolkhoz and Nikolayev From a traditional family; learns in a "heder" and a Romanian school; pogrom and detention of Jews, 1937. Soviet occupation, 1940; return to Romanian control, 1941; deportation with the family on foot to Yampol; deportation to Olgopol; camp life; transfer on foot to Obodovka; transfer to a kolkhoz near Berski; labor for Ukrainians; murder of his mother and brother by a Romanian gendarme; transfer to Bershad; camp life; labor paving roads for the Germans in Nikolayev; return to Bershad; meets what is left of his family, April 1943; liberation by the Red Army, early 1944. Move to Cernauti; life under Communism; marriage; aliya to Israel, 1977.