Testimony of Alexandro Syman Edelsztejn Konschinski, born in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Dombas, Kuty, Vijnita, Cernauti and other places

Testimony of Alexandro Syman Edelsztejn Konschinski, born in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, 1922, regarding his experiences in Dombas, Kuty, Vijnita, Cernauti and other places From a traditional family; learns in a "heder" and a Polish school; his brother's aliya to Eretz Israel, 1936; Hashomer Hatzair activities; move to Kuty with his mother and brother; Soviet occupation; his father's arrival from Warsaw; transfer to Dombas; life in Dombas including labor in coal mines; return to Kuty; learns to be a mechanic in Lwow; German-Romanian occupation; concentration with his father as part of a group of Jews being held hostage; release thanks to his father's resourcefulness; murder of 1,000 Jews; forced labor; hiding during "Aktions"; labor burying the corpses of Jews; illegally crosses the border to Romania; travel through Vijnita and Storojinet en route to Cernauti; arrest by Romanian gendarmes; deportation to Transnistria; transfer to Tiraspol; transfer to Mostovoye; arrival of transport of Jews from Romania; transfer to Romania, early 1944; transfer to Roman; transfer to Bacau. Integration into the economic life under Communist rule; appointment as manager of large paper plants; starts a family; aliya to Israel, 1974.