Testimony of Moshe Kalman, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Balki and villages

Testimony of Moshe Kalman, born in Vijnita, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences in Cernauti, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Balki and villages Large religious family; attends a "heder", a Romanian public school and a yeshiva; life before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; escape to Cernauti; life in Cernauti including labor as a weaver; re-annexation to Romania, 1941; restrictions on Jews including the yellow badge; deportation to Transnistria; deportation of the family to Atachi; joins the family; transfer by rafts to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer on foot to Balki; camp life including escape to Ukrainian villages; labor in villages in exchange for food; labor for the Romanian Gendarmerie; warning from a guard of the intention of liquidating the camp; escape to villages; liberation by the partisans and the Red Army, 1944. Return of the family to Cernauti; joins Bnei Akiva; aliya attempt; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Israel, 1949; starts a family.