Ester Kopelman

Testimony of Ester Kopelman, born in Radauti, Romania, 1929, regarding her experiences in the Vikop Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, Shargorod, in prison in Ukraine and other places From a traditional-religious family; move to her grandparents' home in Gura Humorului; attends a Jewish school. Deportation to the Vikop Ghetto, 1941; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; confiscation of possessions; life in Mogilev-Podolski; transfer to Shargorod; her brother contracts dysentery; her mother's pregnancy; help from Ukrainians; detention in a Ukrainian prison; release after payment of a ransom; transfer to Cernauti; help from a rabbi; the birth; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Return to Romania; serves as a Haganah instructor; organizes an aliya group; aliya attempt on the ship, "Pan York"; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1948; starts a family.