Testimony of Alfred Fogel Rav El, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy and Luchinets

Testimony of Alfred Fogel Rav El, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1932, regarding his experiences in the Cernauti Ghetto, Atachi, Mogilev-Podolskiy and Luchinets From a bourgeois family; displays of antisemitism, 1937. Ribbentrop-Molotov Agreement; Sovietization; changing of identity cards; German occupation of Cernauti, June 1940; arrival of the Einsatzgruppen; in hiding in the cellar of a house occupied by German soldiers; concentration of Jews and the Rabbi in the synagogue and burning the synagogue with everyone in it; deportation of his father to work; yellow badge; beating of Jews in the streets; ghettoization; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto with only six hours to evacuate their home, September 1940; rumors regarding annihilation in occupied Europe; ghetto life including living quarters, hunger, sanitation problems; deportation to Atachi by train; demand that all valuables be turned over at Atachi; crossing the Dnestr river, October 1940; transfer to the Mogilev-Podolskiy Ghetto; transfer to Luchinets; escape to villages in the vicinity, winter 1940; living with farmers and work; warning regarding a search; return to the Luchinets Ghetto; living with his family; his father is taken for work, summer 1942; retreat of the German Army; escape to Mogilev-Podolskiy on a coal train; sneaks into the ghetto; lives in a bombed out cabin; information regarding the evacuation of the Jewish orphanage; approach of the front, March 1944; liberation by the Red Army. Return to Cernauti by train; his father is drafted to the Red Army; return to his studies; his father's discharge, summer 1945; move to Bucharest, May 1946; help from the JDC and the Jewish community; Dror-Habonim and Beitar membership; aliya to Israel on the ship, "Transylvania", October 1950.