Testimony of Avraham Ritter, born in Tarnaveni, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Blaj, Adamus, Chirileni and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944

Testimony of Avraham Ritter, born in Tarnaveni, Romania, 1923, regarding his experiences as a forced laborer in Blaj, Adamus, Chirileni and other places, and his aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944 Life before the war; work as a textile merchant; activities in the Dror-Habonim movement; meets with emissaries from Eretz Israel. Outbreak of the war; nationalization of Jewish businesses; transfer with men to forced labor; transfer to Blaj with Jews; concentration in Blaj in a lumber storehouse; collection of money to pay for ransom; release with deportees from Tarnaveni; escape back to Tarnaveni; receives permission to live outside the city; transfer daily with men to forced labor; deportation to Adamus; life in Adamus including labor cleaning sewers on roads; receives help with food and a place to sleep; listens to the BBC in secret; deportation to Chirileni; life in Chirileni including mutual help between inmates for food; transfer to Booz, summer 1943; life in Booz; labor laying railroad tracks until late April 1944; escape to Bucharest; life in Bucharest including shelling by the Allied forces; escape to Constanta; move to Turkey; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1944.