Monika Hadari

Testimony of Monica (Fichman) Hadari, born in Sighet, Romania, 1933, regarding her experiences in Cariera de Piatra and Tulcin Life before the war. Soviet occupation and deterioration of the economic situation; Romanian occupation and anti-Jewish legislation, 1941; wanderings and deportation to Cariera de Piatra; camp life including life in the homes of the local people; meets with mentally handicapped people; typhus; barter with the Ukrainian villagers; deportation of the witness' father to Tulcin by the Germans; joining her father in Tulcin along with her mother and brother, 1943; ghetto life; aliya to Eretz Israel with her brother using a false identity as part of the "Orphans' Aliya", 1944; aliya of her parents to Israel and reunion of the family, 1948.