Testimony of Aharon Goldental, born in Hotin, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Secureni, Lipcani, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Kopaygorod and Popovtsy

Testimony of Aharon Goldental, born in Hotin, Romania, 1925, regarding his experiences in Secureni, Lipcani, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy, Kopaygorod and Popovtsy From a traditional Zionist family; witness's father is a blacksmith; attends a Romanian school and a Talmud Torah. German occupation, 1940; deportation to Secureni; transfer to Lipcani; camp life including labor paving roads; transfer back to Secureni; transfer to Atachi; transfer to Mogilev-Podolskiy; transfer to Kopaygorod; escape to a forest near Popovtsy; life in a kolkhoz including labor in a smithy with his father and brother; arrest; escape; labor in a jelly factory; liberation, winter 1944. Drafted into the Red Army; release; return to Hotin; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.