Naum Mitelman

Testimony of Naum Mitlman, born in Secureni, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences in Brichany, the Bershad Ghetto, Balta, an orphanage in Iasi and other places Life before the war; relations with the local population. Soviet occupation, 1940; riots; his brother's murder during the German occupation, 1941; deportation to Brichany; camp life; transfer to the Bershad Ghetto on foot; ghetto life including his mother's death and labor logging trees; typhus; transfer to Balta, 1943; transfer to Iasi as with a rescue committee for orphaned children; transfer to Bucharest; life in Bucharest including labor in a glass factory; escape; liberation by the Red Army, 1945. Move to Cernauti; life in an orphanage; drafted into the army, 1948; aliya to Israel, 1978.