Testimony of Aharon Ari Polak, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a young child in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony of Aharon Ari Polak, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1938, regarding his experiences as a young child in the Cernauti Ghetto From a family of hasidim; life before the war. Outbreak of the war, 1939; Soviet occupation; life under Soviet occupation; Romanian and German occupation, 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation of most of the community to Transnistria; permit to stay in Cernauti; deportation of his father to forced labor; ghetto life; transfer to a smaller apartment; mutual help; yellow badge; livelihood from trade in stolen goods; sends kosher food to his father; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. His father's return from the labor camp; life in Bistrita; witness attends a Romanian school and a "heder"; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Pan York", December 1947; detention in Cyprus until January 1948; aliya to Israel on the ship, "LeKomemiyut", June 1948.