Testimony of Yeshaiahu Shaia Siomka Avidani Avidan, born in Tarcau, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Tarcau, Mogilev-Podolski, Dorohoi and Bucharest

Testimony of Yeshaiahu Shaia Siomka Avidani Avidan, born in Tarcau, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Tarcau, Mogilev-Podolski, Dorohoi and Bucharest Life in Tarcau before the war; religious family; displays of antisemitism. Soviet occupation, 1940; murder of Jews by the Romanian Army; expulsion and deportation of Jews from their homes by the Romanians, July 1941; transfer on foot to the Dniester River; transfer to Mogilev-Podolski; life in Mogilev-Podolski including being fostered by a Jewish woman, December 1941; cooperation of Jewish policemen with Ukrainians; transfer of Jews to Pechera camp, 1942; receives information regarding an approaching liquidation; escape and finds a hiding place; escape back to Mogilev-Podolski on foot; rescue of Jews from Pechera camp by his foster mother; arrival of emissaries from the Relief Committee in Kushta; life in an orphanage in Dorohoi; meningitis illness; move to Bucharest; life in an orphanage in Bucharest; end of the war, 1945. Activities in the Gordonia movement; life on a farm; meets counselors from Eretz Israel; aliya to Eretz Israel, October 1945.