Testimony of Paula (Breitner) Shaari, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi and Mogilev

Testimony of Paula (Breitner) Shaari, born in Cernauti, Romania, 1921, regarding her experiences in Cernauti, Atachi and Mogilev Childhood in a traditional home; attends Romanian elementary and high schools; displays of antisemitism before the war. Soviet occupation, 1940; economic changes in the lives of the Jews; deportations to Siberia; reoccupation by the Romanians, 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; yellow badge; confiscation of property, travel restrictions and more; deportation to the Cernauti Ghetto, 1941; deportation to Transnistria a short time later; journey to Atachi by train; transfer to Mogilev on rafts; her brother's work in the Jugendorf Territory; her father's death from typhus, 1942; help from her uncle who transferred money to the family from Switzerland; liberation by the Red Army, 1944. Her brother is drafted into the Red Army; return to Cernauti; joins Hanoar Hatzioni; marriage to Mr. Yehuda Shaari who arrived in Romania as an emissary from Eretz Israel (and later served in various public positions, including serving as a member of the Israel Knesset); aliya to Eretz Israel, March 1948.