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Testimony of Arthur Kostiner, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti , Yampol, Tipolovca and other places

Testimony
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Testimony of Arthur Kostiner, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti , Yampol, Tipolovca and other places Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation; termination of Zionist youth movement activities; economic distress, 1940; displays of antisemitism; murder of Jews next to the Prut River; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; ghetto life; deportation to Marculesti; transfer to the Ukrainian side of Yampol; life in Yampol including robbery and murder; transfer to Tipolovca Veche; transfer to Obodovka; transfer to the Bershad Ghetto; ghetto life including typhus; liberation by Soviet partisans. Draft of his father into the Red Army, March 1944; family return to Cernauti; life in Cernauti; move to Timisoara, 1946; aliya to Israel, 1950; military service; work as a banker.
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Arthur
Artur
Kostiner
1932
Cernauti, Romania
Testimony
Hebrew
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
04/02/04
04/02/04
KOSTINER ARTHUR
YES
ISRAEL
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