Testimony of Marcel Dolberg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto

Testimony of Marcel Dolberg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto Life before the war; attends a local Romanian school; Bnei Akiva activities. Soviet occupation, 1940; his father's disappearance and murder by Romanians; German occupation, June 1941; anti-Jewish decrees including yellow badge; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto with his mother; ghetto life; deportation of relatives to Transnistria; work hauling sacks of flour; his uncle's death from cold; certificates issued allowing the witness and his mother to remain in Cernauti; in hiding in a factory; Romanian soldiers guarding in the ghetto; receives help from Bucharest; disappearance of relatives across the Bug river; typhus; burning of the Great Synagogue in Cernauti; behavior of Ukrainians towards the Jews and robbery of valuables; liberation. Completion of his studies; aliya to Israel with his mother, 1951.