Testimony of Shlomo Salo Shechter, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, in the Cernauti underground and Tiraspol

Testimony of Shlomo Salo Shechter, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, in the Cernauti underground and Tiraspol Life before the war; from a religious family with hardships; learns in a Jewish school and a "heder"; work; joins Gordonia. Soviet occupation, 1940; Romanian-German occupation, 05 July 1941; murder of Jews next to the Prut river; forced agricultural labor; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, Sukkot (06 October) 1941; ghetto life including deportations of Jews to Transnistria; obtains a permit to live outside the ghetto due to his essential work as a mechanic; joins the underground; underground activities; deportation to Tiraspol as a mechanic; camp life; meeting with his brother; retreat of Romanian soldiers; transfer to Cernauti; life in Cernauti including meeting his parents; labor as a mechanic in military camps; renews contact with the underground; German Army retreat; hanging of a red flag on the top of the city hall tower; liberation, 29 March 1944; drafted into the NKVD as a censor. Studies; aliya to Israel, 1977.