Testimony of Miriam Polishuk, born in Sulita, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sulita and the Bershad Ghetto

Testimony of Miriam Polishuk, born in Sulita, Romania, 1924, regarding her experiences in Sulita and the Bershad Ghetto Life before the war; Hashomer Hatzair activities. Soviet occupation, 1940; outbreak of the war, 22 June 1941; unsuccessful attempt to escape; surrounded by Germans after being informed on; murder of youth before their parents' eyes; robbery of jewelry; deportation on foot covering approximately 40 kilometers a day without food or water; Jews drink from the Dniester river; typhus; her father's death; transfer to a forest; mortality of children; finding abandoned babies; transfer to the Bershad Ghetto, October 1941; ghetto life including abuse by SS officers; works as a laundress in the home of a Romanian officer in exchange for food; liberation, 1944. Return to Sulita.