Testimony of Yetty (Ivanier) Burg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lucavatul de Sus, Mogilev, Stepanki, Skazintsy and other places

Testimony of Yetty (Ivanier) Burg, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1934, regarding her experiences in Lucavatul de Sus, Mogilev, Stepanki, Skazintsy and other places Life in Cernauti and Lucavatul de Sus; increase in antisemitism, 1937; murder of two of her uncles. Soviet occupation, 1940; nationalization of the family's shop; draft of her father into the Red Army; retreat of the Soviets, Shavuot (June) 1941; riots by nationalist groups; re-occupation by the Romanian Army; looting of furniture in their home; escape and family hides in another house; concentration of all the town's Jews in the synagogue; deportation to Transnistria with all the Jews of Lucavatul de Sus; march from place to place in Bukovina and Bessarabia, for approximately one month; transfer to Mogilev; stay in Mogilev for approximately one week; transfer to Stepanki; life in Stepanki including illness; transfer to Skazintsy; life in Skazintsy including eating grass and flowers due to hunger; deteriorated hygienic conditions; finds her aunt who is living with a Ukrainian family; her family's move in secret to the Ukrainian family; life with the Ukrainian family including work harvesting tobacco; retreat of the Germans; liberation of the area by Soviet partisans; final liberation by the Red Army, March 1944. Return to Cernauti; aliya to Israel, 1949.