Testimony of Raya (Brenholtz) Haim, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, the Bershad Ghetto, Dombas, Iasi and other places

Testimony of Raya (Brenholtz) Haim, born in Chisinau, Romania, 1930, regarding her experiences as a child in the Cernauti Ghetto, the Bershad Ghetto, Dombas, Iasi and other places Life before the war; from a well-to-do family; relations with Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors; family visit in Cernauti. Outbreak of the war; severance of contact with home; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto; deportation to Transnistria by train; transfer on foot without a destination; sleeping outside; transfer to Bershad; life in the synagogue in Bershad; help from local Jews; life in the Bershad Ghetto; relations with Ukrainian policemen and Romanian soldiers; kidnapped and transferred to forced labor in a sugar factory; establishment of an orphanage by Dr. Koren; life in the orphanage; transfer of packages to partisans by the children from the orphanage; transfer to Iasi with a group of children by the JDC, 1944; life in Iasi fostered by a Jewish family; transfer to Dombas to labor in mines; smuggled into Cernauti with children by her foster mother. Preparations for aliya to Eretz Israel with Hashomer Hatzair; move to Zagreb with members of Hashomer Hatzair; aliya attempt to Eretz Israel on the ship, "Knesset Israel", 1946; detention in Cyprus; life in Cypress including Hashomer Hatzair activities; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1947.