Testimony of Shimon Sioma Shtaynvurzel Sela, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1937, regarding his experiences in Samarkand

Testimony of Shimon Sioma Shtaynvurzel Sela, born in Kiev, Ukraine, 1937, regarding his experiences in Samarkand Draft of the witness' father into the Red Army; his father's death, summer 1941; escape to Samarkand with his mother and siblings; life in Samarkand; the local Jewish community; learns in a "heder"; displays of antisemitism; his mother's remarriage; end of the war, 1944. Move to Rowno; decision to escape due to antisemitism; crossing the border into Czechoslovakia illegally; arrest; detention; release; move to Austria; life in the Hallein DP camp and the Ebensee DP camp; aliya to Israel, May 1949.