Testimony of Lizi (Shlau) Ruben, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, wanderings and in hiding

Testimony of Lizi (Shlau) Ruben, born in Storojinet, Romania, 1935, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Mogilev-Podolski, wanderings and in hiding Only daughter in a Jewish traditional family; her father is an independent tailor; life with her grandmother; social life. Detention of her father; visits to her father in prison and attempts to release him with the help of friends, summer 1940; escape of the family to Cernauti, autumn 1941; life with her mother with her uncle; in hiding of her father with relatives in various places; life in the Cernauti Ghetto; begging; deportation to Transnistria; transfer across the Dniester River to Mogilev-Podolski; wanderings of the family between villages, winter 1941; in hiding; sewing clothes in exchange for food, typhus and lice; learns to read and write; the Germans flee; rescue by her father from the air-raids, 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Move on foot to Cernauti; changes the family name to Yublonsik; return to Storojinet; work of her father as a tailor, May 1945; death of her cousin; attends school; joins Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, late 1945; aliya to Israel onboard the ship "Transylvania", 1951; life in Yoqneam maabara (temporary camp); marriage; life in Haifa.