Testimony of Malka (Shvartz) Gruzman, born in Briceni, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolskiy and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony of Malka (Shvartz) Gruzman, born in Briceni, Romania, 1927, regarding her experiences in Mogilev-Podolskiy and the Bershad Ghetto Life before the war; the family own a grocery store; attends a Romanian school; activities in Hashomer Hatzair. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation including pogroms and confiscation of their grocery store; German occupation, 1941; murder of her father; deportation to Mogilev-Podolskiy; deportation to Bershad Ghetto; ghetto life including the death of her mother from typhus and living off the labor of her sister sewing; liberation. Return to Romania; marriage; aliya attempt onboard the "Knesset Israel", 1946; detention in Cyprus; birth of her son; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.