Testimony of Rachel (Fischler) Iurgrau, born in Campulung, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto

Testimony of Rachel (Fischler) Iurgrau, born in Campulung, Romania, 1928, regarding her experiences in Atachi and the Mogilev-Podolski Ghetto Life before the war; the family owns a hotel and restaurant; traditional family. Decrees and difficulties to make a livelihood, 1940; deportation to Atachi, October 1940; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski and labor of her mother as a cook, selling food and in a German kitchen; her parents got typhus; death of her mother; labor as a cook; learns Russian; joins a youth movement; liberation, end of 1944. Return to Romania, autumn 1944; move to Briceni; life in Briceni and work knitting and selling sweaters; life with non-Jews in a village; return to Campulung, May 1945; life in Campulung and work in the family's restaurant; joins a Zionist youth movement and aliya training; meets her future husband; aliya attempt onboard the "Knesset Israel", end of 1946; detention in Cyprus; life in a detention camp and engagement; kibbutz life and learns Hebrew; marriage, 1947; aliya to Eretz Israel, autumn 1947; joins Kibbutz Mivtachim; activities as a wireless operator in the Palmach.