Testimony of Jacob Yaakov Yurgrau, born in Falticeni, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski

Testimony of Jacob Yaakov Yurgrau, born in Falticeni, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Atachi and Mogilev-Podolski Life before the war; family income based on trade in grain; deterioration of the economic condition of the family; move to Gura Humorului. Deportation to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski, October 1941; life in Mogilev-Podolski including his mother's death from typhus during childbirth, August 1942; his father's labor in a foundry; labor digging coal and loading wheat on freight cars; commerce; search for wood for heating. Move to Falticeni with a group of orphans; reunion with the family; uniting of the family in Gura Humorului; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; resumption of studies; learns to be a silversmith; joins aliya training in the Transylvania area; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel; detention in Cyprus; marriage; aliya to Eretz Israel, October 1947.