Testimony of Shifra (Barula) Strausberg Chosid, born in Romny, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Romny Ghetto, in hiding with an assumed identity in Konotop and life as a non-Jewish forced laborer in the Cologne area

Testimony of Shifra (Barula) Strausberg Chosid, born in Romny, Ukraine, 1924, regarding her experiences in the Romny Ghetto, in hiding with an assumed identity in Konotop and life as a non-Jewish forced laborer in the Cologne area Life before the war. Ban on religious observance; German occupation, 1941; restrictions on the Jews; arm-band; yellow badge; deportation of men to forced labor; hanging of Jews; deportation to a ghetto; ghetto life; Ukrainian police activities; Jews are informed on; cooperation with the Ukrainians; murder of Jews including her mother and brother; mass burial of Jews including burying them alive; draft of her father to the Red Army; suicide attempt; hidden by a Ukrainian; life with an assumed identity; transfer to Konotop; life in Konotop including hidden in a non-Jewish home; transfer to Germany as a non-Jew with additional women, 1942; camp life in the Cologne area including forced labor; work as a maid. Meeting with an American officer; return via Potsdam to the family home in Romny; life in Romny; receives a letter from her father and reunion with her father; aliya to Israel, 1978.