Uri Engel

Testimony

Testimony of Uri Engel, born in Radauc, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war. Soviet occupaiton; deterioration of the economic situation; German occupation; life in the Cernauti Ghetto; transfer to the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto; ghetto life and typhus; liberation, 1944. Drafted into the Red Army; service in intelligence corps in Romania, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia until 1946. Stood on trial for treason in the Soviet Union; sentenced to ten years in prison and hard labor in Vorkuta; camp life including and hard labor coal mining; struggle to make aliya to Israel as a refusenik; aliya to Israel, 1971.

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item Id

4408293

First Name

Uri

Last Name

Engel

Date of Birth

14/05/1921

Place of Birth

Radauc, Romania

Type of material

Testimony

Language

Hebrew

Record Group

O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives

Date of Creation - earliest

11/11/2002

Date of Creation - latest

11/11/2002

Name of Submitter

ENGEL URI

Original

YES

Interview Location

ISRAEL

Connected to Item

O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem

Form of Testimony

Video

Subjects

Dedication

Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository