Testimony of Jakob Weissman, born in Edineti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, the Bershad Ghetto, an orphanage in Balta and in hiding while hidden by Ukrainians

Testimony of Jakob Weissman, born in Edineti, Romania, 1926, regarding his experiences in Mogilev, the Bershad Ghetto, an orphanage in Balta and in hiding while hidden by Ukrainians Life before the war; learns in a heder and attends a Hebrew school; Zionist activities in the Gordonia movement. Soviet occupation; exile of wealthy Jews to Siberia; Romanian occupation; concentration of the Jews in a square; murder of young people in a common grave; theft of the Jewish property in the homes; murder of his father and older brother; deportation of the Jews to Transnistria; arrival to Mogilev and then to Bershad; death of his mother; Bershad Ghetto life; placed in an orphanage in Balta with approximately 50 orphans; help from the JDC organization; begs in the market place; life in hiding while hidden by a Ukrainian family; end of the war and return to Romania. Life in an orphanage in Bucharest; work in the forgery of documents; detention; move to Hungary; life in an aliya training "kibbutz" in Budapest; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1948.