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Testimony of Martin Goldenzweig Gidron, born in Zavidovici, Yugoslavia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Suceava, the Cernauti Ghetto, the Dzhurin Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Trikhaty and other places

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Testimony of Martin Goldenzweig Gidron, born in Zavidovici, Yugoslavia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Suceava, the Cernauti Ghetto, the Dzhurin Ghetto, as a forced laborer in Trikhaty and other places Family background; move to Suceava, Romania; family life; Beitar activities. Confiscation of property by the Red Army; German and Romanian occupation, 1941; Iron Guard activities; murder of Jews by Germans; transfer to Cernauti; deportation of his father to Shargorod; entry into the ghetto; deportation to Transnistria via Atachi; crossing the river on rafts; drowning of people in the river; arrival in Mogilev; meeting with family members; deportation to the Dzhurin Ghetto; guarding by Romanian gendarmes; typhus in the ghetto; meeting with his father in Shargorod; his father's death from typhus; organizing help in the ghetto; the Jewish police; transfer to a labor camp in Trikhaty; forced labor; hunger and eating donkey meat; transfer back to Mogilev; march from Mogilev to Dzhurin; Jewish police activities; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Move to Bucharest via Cernauti and Suceava; the refugees in Suceava; meeting with Beitar representatives in Bucharest; aliya to Eretz Israel from Constanta on the ship, "Salah-a-Din", November 1944.
item Id
7526629
First Name
Martin
Last Name
Goldentzveig
Date of Birth
03/02/1915
Place of Birth
Zavidovici, Yugoslavia
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
11/11/08
Date of Creation - latest
11/11/08
Name of Submitter
Gidron Goldenzweig Martin
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository