Testimony of Yehoshua Shiko Ozias Schechter, born in Putna, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Putna, Radauti, in the Zhabokrich and Tsibulevka Ghettos and more

Testimony of Yehoshua Shiko Ozias Schechter, born in Putna, Romania, 1930, regarding his experiences as a child in Putna, Radauti, in the Zhabokrich and Tsibulevka Ghettos and more Life before the war; studies in a "heder" and in a public school; Draft of his father into the Romanian Army; release of his father by using bribery; deportation to Radauti, 1940; life there; establishment of a school for Jews; yellow badge; rise of the Garda de Fier (Iron Guard) organization to power; mass murder in Bukovina; deportation together with his family by train to Transnistria; transfer to Atachi; life there; confiscation of valuables; crossing the river on rafts and transfer on a march to Zhabokrich; life there; murder of the Jews and their burial in mass graves; deportation to the Zhabokrich Ghetto together with the deportees; ghetto life; deportation of Jewish males to forced labor; religious life and rituals; transfer to the Tsibulevka Ghetto; ghetto life; guarded by Romanian gendarmes; escape to the Zhabokrich ghetto; ghetto life; freezing of Jews to death; starvation and typhus; death of his father and other family members; Soviet occupation, March 1944; liberation by the Red Army; Move to Iasi; move to Radauti; life there; joins the Bnei Akiva organization; move to Constanta; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.