Shmuel Ostri

Testimony of Smuel Ostri, born in Borduzani, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Luchinets, Mogilev-Podolski and Atachi Life before the war. Deportation to Luchinets; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including his family's work baking and selling pies; transfer to Atachi; life in Atachi including labor building bridges; typhus at the time of liberation by the Red Army. Arrest on the charge of stealing a door; drafted into the Red Army; construction of an airfield in eastern Prussia; transfer to Poland and Czechoslovakia with the army; transfer to Minsk; meetis his uncle; desertion from the army; return to Borduzani; reunion with his parents; aliya attempt via Yugoslavia and Italy; detention in Cyprus; enlists in the IDF; writes his personal memoirs.