Testimony of Rafael Richard Auslender Tadmor, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Obodovka, Bershad and Balti

Testimony of Rafael Richard Auslender Tadmor, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, Obodovka, Bershad and Balti Life in Cernauti before the war. Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life; deportation to Obodovka with his parents; transfer to Bershad; life in Bershad including his father's death; life using a false German identity with the help of his German looks and German mother-tongue; escape to Balti; life in Balti; liberation, 1944. Return to Cernauti; education in Cluj; life in Iasi including joining the Hashomer Hatzair movement; move to Bucharest; life in Bucharest in a Youth Aliyah home for child refugees; move to Yugoslavia; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Rafiah" ship; sinking of the ship, and life on the island of Crete; transfer to and detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.