Testimony of Felicia Lici (Sternberg) Nesher, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Luchinets Ghetto
Testimony of Felicia Lici (Sternberg) Nesher, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Luchinets Ghetto
Testimony
Testimony of Felicia Lici (Sternberg) Nesher, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1936, regarding her experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto and the Luchinets Ghetto
Well-to-do family.
Deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; Cernauti Ghetto life; her father's possibility to be rescued from a deportation due to his profession; refusal by her father to be rescued from the deportation; deportation to Transnistria; Luchinets Ghetto life; her father's departure from the borders of the ghetto in order to obtain food; murder of her father by Romanian gendarmes; witness' work leading cows to pasture for a Ukrainian woman; transfer of the witness' sister, who was 11 years old, to labor mining coal; her mother's searches for food; flogging of her mother by Romanian policemen; mortality due to typhus disease; hides from gendarmes, and fear of being raped; removal of children from the camp with help from the JDC organization; liberation by Soviet partisans.
Return on foot to Cernauti; her mother's move to Galicia in order to locate her parents and the family's property; threat on their life; move to Bucharest; aliya to Israel, 1950.
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item Id
6625944
First Name
Felicia
Felitzia
Lici
Litzi
Last Name
Nesher
Maiden Name
Shternberg
Sternberg
Date of Birth
21/12/1936
Place of Birth
Cernauti, Romania
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives