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Testimony of Chaim Schaffer, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, a forest, an orphanage in Kopaygorod and other places

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Testimony of Chaim Schaffer, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolski, a forest, an orphanage in Kopaygorod and other places Family with hardships; Soviet occupation; life under Communist rule, 1940; German occupation; decrees; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; transfer to Atachi, October 1941; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski; escape of the family; work for local farmers; deportation of the rest of his family to a forest; escape of his sister and her return to the ghetto; death of his family members in a forest; death of his sister in the ghetto; transfer to an orphanage in Kopaygorod, December 1943. Return of the orphans to Romania; life in a children's home in Barlad; aliya to Eretz Israel via Bucharest, Constanta and Istanbul, May 1944.
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4707717
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Chaim
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Schaffer
Shaper
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1925
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Cernauti, Romania
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Testimony
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Hebrew
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
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08/01/04
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08/01/04
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SCHAFFER CHAIM
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YES
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ISRAEL
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O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
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