Testimony of Zipora Zita (Drukman) Ionai, born in Banila Pe Siret, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Banila Pe Siret, Stepanki and Mogilev

Testimony of Zipora Zita (Drukman) Ionai, born in Banila Pe Siret, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Banila Pe Siret, Stepanki and Mogilev Well-to-do family; relations with the Romanian population; attends a Tarbut Hebrew school; activities in Hashomer Hatzair and Bnei Akiva movements. Outbreak of the war; Soviet occupation; exile of well-to-do Jews to Siberia; confiscation of property, 1939; re-annexation to Romania; murder of her father, 1940; concentration of the Banila Jews in a movie theater; deportation on foot in the direction of Ukraine; sleeps outside under the open sky; en route via Stepanki; death of her mother, brother and sister; transfer to Mogilev; life in Mogilev including mutual help; life with a female farmer and a Jewish family as a maid; typhus and tuberculosis; death of another sister. Return to Romania; sets sail on the "Transylvania" ship and aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.