Testimony of Regina Rivka (Fogel) Laufman, born in Borsa, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Borsa and Vaslui

Testimony of Regina Rivka (Fogel) Laufman, born in Borsa, Romania, 1931, regarding her experiences in Borsa and Vaslui Ultra-Orthodox family; displays of antisemitism; expulsion from school; transfer to a Jewish school; activities in the Hanoar Hatzioni movement; move to Vaslui, 1941; activities in the Bnei Akiva movement; plans to make aliya to Eretz Israel; acts of vandalism against the Jews. Burning of homes and property; coordination by the community; help to Jewish refugees; help with housing and livelihood; burning of Torah scrolls to the sound of music; life in a "kibbutz" [aliya training], in preparation for aliya to Eretz Israel; life with approximately 200 young women and men in an Agudat Israel dormitory, 1944; learns Hebrew, Bible and Eretz Israel studies. Knowledge regarding the murder of Jews and the extermination camps; knowledge regarding her family's fate, including the murder of her older brother in Auschwitz; aliya to Israel with her family, 1950; marriage.