Testimony of Shlomo Solomon Divald, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti and Tsybulevka

Testimony of Shlomo Solomon Divald, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Marculesti and Tsybulevka From a religious, Zionist family. Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of the family's grocery store; re-occupation by the Romanian Army; 1941; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; yellow badge; deportation to Marculesti, autumn 1941; robbery of his family's jewelry and money by Romanian Gendarms; transfer on foot to Cosauti; crosses the Nistru River; transfer on foot to Tsybulevka; life in a stable; life in a Ukrainian farmer's house; deportation of his father to a labor camp; labor with his mother on the Ukrainian farmer's farm; his father's return, 1943; liberation by the Red Army, spring 1944. Life in Mogilev-Podolski; draft of his father into a Red Army labor brigade; return to Cernauti, summer 1944; aliya training in Blaj; unsuccessful aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Medinat Hayehudim" , 1947; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, November 1947.