Testimony of Max Zilberman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi, in hiding and in Bucharest

Testimony of Max Zilberman, born in Iasi, Romania, 1933, regarding his experiences as a child in Iasi, in hiding and in Bucharest From a traditional family. Outbreak of the war; restrictions on Jews; Aryanization of businesses; curfew; expulsion from Romanian schools; prohibition to congregate; deportation to labor; preparation of hiding places; confiscation of radios, bicycles, telephones; Iasi pogrom, June 1941; being rescued by a Wehrmacht officer; assistance to Jews by Romanians; being hidden and rescued; bribery in exchange for release from forced labor; survival through the black market; information regarding Transnistria; German Army retreat; fear of Soviet occupation and escape to Bucharest, 1944; liberation, September 1944. Hanoar Hatzioni activities; aliya to Israel, 1950.