Testimony of Chaim Volf, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Mogilev-Podolski, the Dzhurin Ghetto, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony of Chaim Volf, born in Radauti, Romania, 1927, regarding his experiences in Radauti, Mogilev-Podolski, the Dzhurin Ghetto, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war; death of his mother, 1930; activities in the Beitar movement. Transfer of Jews from villages to Radauti, late 1939; help by the Jewish community to the refugees; arrival of German soldiers, 1940; yellow badge; removal of Jews from the schools; attends an improvised Jewish school; pogrom by people in the Iron Guard movement; capture of Jewish hostages including his uncle; secret activities in the Beitar movement; deportation to Transnistria, autumn 1941; life en route including Jews' suicide; panic during the crossing of the Dniester River; transfer to Mogilev- Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski in a movie theater; deportation to the Dzhurin Ghetto under the escort of Romanian gendarmes; Dzhurin Ghetto life; loose guarding by members of a Ukrainian militia; mass mortality due to starvation and cold; labor for villagers in exchange for food; transfer of his father to labor in Nikolayev camp; death of his father, summer 1942; deportation of his brothers to camps; death of his sister; life alone; transfer to an orphanage of the Jewish community, 1943; relations with the Ukrainian population; activities of the Jewish police; disintegration of the orphanage, 1944; arrival of the Red Cross organization to the orphanage; transfer in a group of children, March 1944; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944.