Testimony of Moshe Glutman, born in Edineti Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Edineti Targ, Transnistria, Vartejeni Targ and Verkhovka

Testimony of Moshe Glutman, born in Edineti Targ, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences in Edineti Targ, Transnistria, Vartejeni Targ and Verkhovka From a traditional family of professionally skilled workers; co-existence of Jews and non-Jews; Jewish youth movement activities. Red Army occupation, 1940; Romanian occupation 1941; retaliation against the Jews who collaborated with the Soviets; murder, looting, rape; deportation to Transnistria; shortage of food and water; mortality from illnesses; dysentery; typhus; sleeping in stables and cowsheds; crossing the Dniester and drowning of people; arrival on Vartejeni Targ; life in Vartejeni Targ for three months; bartering for food; arrival in Verkhovka; life in Verkhovka for approximately two years; work at odd jobs by his father; rescue of the family from starvation; abuse of the Jews by Romanians and SS men; arrangement of classes for children by Schwartz, a Jewish Kapo; arrival of the Red Army, 1944; liberation. Return to Bessarabia; from Bessarabia to Romania; life in an orphanage; aliya to Eretz Israel, 1946.