Testimony of Julius Drukman, born in Radauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, the Yampol region, Obodovka, Balta and other places

Testimony of Julius Drukman, born in Radauti, Romania, 1929, regarding his experiences as a child in Cernauti, the Yampol region, Obodovka, Balta and other places Life in Radauti before the war; life in Banila; move to Cernauti; life in Cernauti. Deportation to Yampol on a train; transfer to a kolkhoz in the Yampol region; life in the kolkhoz; escape and joins a group of Jews in Cernauti; escape to Storojinet; life in Storojinet; escape to Obodovka; life in Obodovka including meeting a Jewish partisan; receives money from his family in Romania; move to Balta with Jewish orphans; move back to Obodovka due to shortages in Balta; builds a chess set from hazelnut wood; gives the chess set to his friend Menachem, who later gave the chess game to Yad Vashem. Move to Cernauti on a Soviet vehicle; life in Cernauti including attending a local school; illegally crosses the border and arrival to Bucharest; aliya to Israel.