Testimony of Sonia Sofia (Gorman) Lerner, born in Bershad, Ukraine, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Bershad Ghetto and in hiding

Testimony of Sonia Sofia (Gorman) Lerner, born in Bershad, Ukraine, 1926, regarding her experiences in the Bershad Ghetto and in hiding From a traditional family with hardships; attends a Jewish school. Outbreak of the war; deportation on foot; attempt to hide; capture by Nationalist Ukrainians; transfer to Bershad on foot including robbery of possessions; deportation to the Bershad Ghetto; ghetto life including being guarded by Romanians; help from a Ukrainian friend of the witness' mother; her mother's death from typhus, January 1942; round up of Jews and hiding on the roof with her brother; shooting Jews at the pit; deaths of her father and brother from starvation, 1943; liberation, 1944. Move to Belcesti, 1950; aliya to Israel, 1985.