Testimony of David Croitoru, born in Podul Iloaiei, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Podul Iloaiei and in Iasi

Testimony of David Croitoru, born in Podul Iloaiei, Romania, 1936, regarding his experiences as a child in Podul Iloaiei and in Iasi Life in Podul Iloaiei. Deportation to Iasi with his family; informing on Jews, by their non-Jewish neighbors; concentration with the refugees in an old age home building; receives help from the Jewish committee; wears a yellow badge; deportation of his father and brothers to forced labor; gendarmes break into their home; detention of his father; his father is accused of being a Communist; detention of his father in the Talmud Torah building; deportation to a camp (apparently Trikhaty camp); deportation of his brothers to a camp (apparently Targu Jiu camp); liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Aliya of his brothers to Eretz Israel with Zionist aliya training groups; his aliya to Israel, 1963.