Testimony of Haim Isac Trachtenbroit Birenboim, born in Zguritsa, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Balti, Vertujeni, Soroka, Bershad, Nicolaevca and Barbarovka

Testimony of Haim Isac Trachtenbroit Birenboim, born in Zguritsa, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Balti, Vertujeni, Soroka, Bershad, Nicolaevca and Barbarovka Religious family; education; work as an apprentice seller in markets; Gordonia activities; move to aliya training in Balti, 1936; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, June 1941; escape to fields; in hiding in a barrack with the help of a neighbor; escape back home; deportation to Vertujeni; camp life including labor carrying rocks; transfer to Soroka; camp life including labor renovating and cleaning; escape to Bershad, autumn 1941; camp life including search for relatives and labor in his uncle's bakery; marriage and starts a family, early 1943; transfer to Nicolaevca; transfer to Barbarovka; establishment of the camp and labor in a mill; transfer back to Bershad; meets his wife and daughter; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Draft into the Red Army until 1946; return to Romania; the family expands, 1952; aliya to Israel, 1961; life in Israel; his son is killed in action during the Yom Kippur War.