Testimony of Yosef Shmeltzer, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and a Czechoslovakian brigade
Established secular family; work of his father as an accountant.
Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation; murder of 100 important Jews from the city in spite of a bribe to a Romanian soldier; labor cleaning the Christian cemetery; transfer to the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life including studies with a private teacher, busy reading and playing; labor of his father as a bookkeeper in a factory and receiving "Essential for the Economy" certificate; liberation by the Red Army, 1944.
Drafted into a Czechoslovakian brigade; wounded on the Polish front from shrapnel in the back; receives medical aid from a Jewish doctor; return to Cernauti, April 1945; move to Bucharest; graduation; marriage; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949.
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item Id
4398936
First Name
Yosef
Last Name
Shmeltzer
Date of Birth
03/11/1926
Place of Birth
Cernauti, Romania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives