Testimony of Yosef Kalman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iasi

Testimony of Yosef Kalman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1928, regarding his experiences in Iasi Life before the war; termination of studies at school; dismissal from work places; yellow badge and marking the outsides of houses; expulsion from his home with his family; transfer to Police Headquarters on foot with his family, June 1941; murder of those having difficulty walking; being put on closed trucks; jumping from the truck and finding a hiding place in a thicket; help from non-Jews; seeing the piles of corpses of those murdered by the side of the road; burning of Jews in a granary; death of his father on the "death train"; transfer of youth to forced labor; digging ditches and cleaning streets; prayers at the synagogue in secret; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Drafted to military service in the Romanian Army; aliya to Israel, 1964.