Testimony of Shalom Shiber, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinnitsa, the Cernauti Ghetto, Kopaygorod, Mogilev-Podolski and other places

Testimony of Shalom Shiber, born in Berhomet, Romania, 1922, regarding his experiences in Vinnitsa, the Cernauti Ghetto, Kopaygorod, Mogilev-Podolski and other places Life before the war; witness attends a state elementary school and learns in a "heder"; work as a shoemaker's assistant due to the difficult economic situation. Soviet occupation, 1941; German occupation, 1944; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life including deportation on foot to Kopaygorod; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including the death of his parents due to typhus; labor as a shoemaker's assistant; escape to Iasi; life in Iasi including receiving help from the JDC organization; liberation by the Red Army, 1944; draft into the Red Army; life in the Red Army in the Storojinet area; release from the Red Army, 1945. Joins the Hapoel Hamizrachi movement; aliya training in Oradea; illegal aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the "Pan York" ship; detention in Cyprus; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1945.