Testimony of Esther (Tarnarider) Shtiglitz, born in Briceva, Romania, 1923, regarding her expeiences in Briceva, Cosauti, Bershad, Pyatkovka and other places

Testimony of Esther (Tarnarider) Shtiglitz, born in Briceva, Romania, 1923, regarding her expeiences in Briceva, Cosauti, Bershad, Pyatkovka and other places Life before the war; daughter in a religious Zionist family. Soviet occupation, 1940; German occupation, summer 1941; deportation to Transnistria before Rosh Hashana, 1941; life in Cosauti in a forest; crosses the Dniester forest; transfer to Bershad; life in Bershad including receives help from local Jews; transfer to a kolkhoz in Pyatkovka; unsuccessful escape attempt to Bershad; typhus; marriage and escape to Rublenita; life in Rublenitz including help from Germans; liberation, summer 1944; return to the Bessarabia district. Draft of her husband to the Red Army; aliya to Israel, 1951.