Avraham Klein

Testimony of Avraham Klein, born in Focsani, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Focsani Ghetto and as a forced laborer Life before the war; Zionist family; attends a public school; displays of antisemitism in school; Zionist youth movement activities; Jewish community; learns Hebrew; his father supports the establishment of a Jewish political party that was elected to the Romanian parliament; work as a reporter for the newspaper, "Techiyatenu". Ban on Zionist activities; pogroms; deportation to the Focsani Ghetto, 1940; ghetto life; food shortage in the ghetto; drafted to forced labor in a German military airfield; maintains contact with his mother due to bribes to guards; illness and hospitalization; return to forced labor during the hospitalization. Aliya to Eretz Israel via Syria and Lebanon, 1944; arrival in Atlit; his parents' aliya, 1949.