Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest

Testimony of Yaacov Klein Katsir, born in Bucharest, Romania, 1931, regarding his experiences as a child in Bucharest Family background; Shabbatot and religious holidays; attends a Sephardic Jewish school; synagogues; youth movements and mutual help in the community; arrival of refugees in Bucharest. Anti-Jewish legislation during the Goga-Cuza government; terror on the part of the Iron Guard legionnaires; attempts by the Romanian Army to disperse the legionnaires; persecution of youth groups; deportations to Transnistria; forced labor; agricultural labor in a rural area; air-raids on factories by the US Army; labor clearing away rubble; removing the bodies of the dead; removal of bombs that did not explode; identification of Jews; liberation by the Red Army, August 1944. Aliya to Eretz Israel by train via Bulgaria, Turkey and Syria, 1944; help from the Jewish community in Istanbul, absorption within the Youth Aliyah framework.